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Welcome to the Yarpole Parish website - get information on events, facilities within the Parish, social groups, Yarpole Community Shop, The Bell at Yarpole, volunteering opportunities, the Parish Council and the PCC and more.

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Coronavirus - if you have a cough, sore throat, headache, fever, shortness of breath or loss of taste or smell - please keep away from public spaces. For the latest NHS advice click here.

Church services at Yarpole and Croft have re started. Details available on Our Churches page.

The Bell at Yarpole has a selection of great takeaways in May. See the menu here. 

The Café in the Marquee is now open. See the Gallery café page for details.

    If you are organising an event and you'd like it to appear on the website calendar and in the regular 'what's on' email, Facebook and in The Parishioner, please use the on-line form. 

If you would like to receive regular emails about forthcoming events email - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 

Welcome to Yarpole, nestling in rolling countryside in North Herefordshire, mid way between the market towns of Ludlow and Leominster.

Spring is coming, we are hopefully moving out of lockdown. Vaccinations are rolling out apace. We can start to enjoy our Parish all over again!

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How Yarpole is tackling the coronavirus outbreak.

From the 17th May most lockdown restrictions will lift.

  • Hospitality venues will reopen with indoor dining.

  • People will be able to meet socially in a groups of six, or with one other household - essentially taking the current rule of six and making it legal indoors.

  • Indoor gyms and exercise classes will be able to re start.

For the full details click on the link England National Lockdown restrictions.

Coronavirus cases in Herefordshire are rising again.

Case numbers have been rising across Herefordshire for the last 4 weeks; the county now has a higher positive case load than Manchester. Last week there were 74 new cases, up from 33 of the previous week. The data is updated every Tuesday. Deaths now include all deaths in Herefordshire, not just those occurring in hospital. There have been no new Coronavirus related deaths. For more detailed information from the Government website click on the link.

Yarpole Community Shop to re-introduce Community Project Funding.

In 2019, for financial reasons, this was not possible and in 2020, the Covid 19 pandemic precluded any meaningful receipt or approval of funding applications. This year, however, the shop is able to re-launch this initiative. The Management Committee are pleased to announce that £3000 will be made available for funding of Community Projects this year.

More information can be found by clicking on the Shop page. 

The Bell at Yarpole will re-open for indoor dining from 17th May. Life is getting back to normal and from the 17th May it will be possible to eat inside. Two households or up to six people will be allowed to sit together. 

The Bell at Yarpole will also be open for the Bank Holiday on Monday, May 3rd from 12 midday till late. Outside food will be served between 12 midday until 4pm. 

 The Bell at Yarpole takeaways.

The weekly takeaway menu will continue until the weekend of the 8th and 9th May. A great selection of fantastic meals available Friday and Saturday evenings and for Sunday lunch. For the current menu click here! Once the Bell is fully reopened takeaway night will move to Thursday evenings.

Please call 01568 780515 (or email  This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) to pre order.

We would like to say a huge Thank You to everyone who has ordered a takeaway over the past months and helped support us. 

The Gallery Café is open in the marquee outside the church. Coffee, tea, hot and cold drinks and the Cafe's delicious homemade cakes will again be available. Sit down lunches will be available on Thursday and Friday's. Takeaway's will also be available to order on Thursday and Friday lunchtimes. See the Gallery Café page for details and the menu.

The Walking Group has published self guided walks for people to enjoy. These are available via this link. The Walking Group has re started regular walks on the 2nd Friday and 4th Sunday of the month. Walks start at 10.30am outside St Leonard's Church.

There has been a community recorded here for over 2000 years. The village is mentioned in the Doomsday Book. The Anglo-Saxon meaning of Yarpole (Iarpol or Yarpol) is fish pool or dam for containing fish. The original fish pool has long since been abandoned, the remains of the dam wall are still visible.

Yarpole still retains its red telephone kiosk, its pub, The Bell at Yarpole and has an award winning community run village shop and Post Office operating from within the Parish Church, St Leonard's. The first full time shop in a church.

The Parish has a population of approximately 700 and comprises of the villages of Bircher and Lucton, the community on Bircher Common and the hamlet of Bicton.

 

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