Hereford Cathedral

[mikey4444]

We had a lovely day out in Hereford yesterday. Perfect weather....blue skies, with small fluffy little clouds like cotton wool...warm but not too hot.

We parked by the river and had a walk in the water meadows, over the Victoria Bridge, and had a stroll around town and then lunch in the garden of a small bistro called La Madeleine ( I think ! )

Then spent 1.5 hours looking around the Cathedral. What a lovely place, not so big that we felt overwhelmed as we did at York. Beautiful stained glass windows. Almost had the place to ourselves !

Can I recommend Hereford for a wonderful day out, if you live within a couple of hours driving. Can't wait to return !

[WELSHYORKIE]

I was stationed down there in 1972/73 Mikey and we had our passing out service in the cathedral. Had a couple of visits since then and I've always enjoyed it. Our old camp has now been taken over by the SAS so probably wouldn't get welcomed back there but will certainly will be visiting Hereford again soon - plus Waterboatman doesn't live too far away in Gloucestershire so will be calling in on him too.

[kvalidir]

Yay I live in Herefordshire, and I love it, even if it's a bit on the quiet side sometimes.

[WELSHYORKIE]

Kval - love it there. Driving through Hereford and Worcs and visiting the farm shops and getting 'proper' produce straight off the fields

[lady-janine]

ovely place. used to go there when I lived near aberg.

[lady-janine]

sorry lovely.

[NoMercy]

I was there last weekend visiting my folks. The new development is open now, which was badly needed. Hereford has become a bit dumpified in recent years.

[naomi24]

Beautiful! I bought a lovely copy of the Mappa Mundi there and it's now framed and on my study wall.

[sherrardk]

I live in Hereford, it's nice but so 'slow' after where we used to live. Has taken a lot of time to get used to.

[mikey4444]

Welsh Yorkie...I can remember hiking up in the hills, about 15 years ago, above your old army base and looking down on it. I seem to recall an old railway tunnel, which we were told in the Pub later that day was used for SAS training. Would have been possible to land a plane at this place ?

[anneasquith]

sounds like the perfect day mikey. :)

[mikey4444]

It was indeed anneasquith...only problem was the long way from Swansea !

[WELSHYORKIE]

Mikey, the base at Credenhill would have been able to take a plane landing - the roads at the bottom of the base were very wide. However, I don't think there was any aircraft movement at the base. As an aside, if you google RAF Hereford it comes up with 5 images - the middle one is of our apprentice entry and on close inspection, it would appear that I'm on the 3rd row 3rd from the left!!