English Heritage sites near Orcop Parish
ROTHERWAS CHAPEL
8 miles from Orcop Parish
Family chapel of the Bodenham family. The originally simple medieval building has a fine Elizabethan timber roof, 18th century tower and striking Victorian interior decoration and furnishings.
GOODRICH CASTLE
9 miles from Orcop Parish
Goodrich stands majestically on a wooded hill commanding the passage of the River Wye into the picturesque valley of Symonds Yat.
LONGTOWN CASTLE
9 miles from Orcop Parish
A powerful thick-walled round keep of c.1150 on a large earthen mound within a stone-walled bailey. Set in the beautiful Olchon valley, with magnificent views of the Black Mountains.
ST MARY'S CHURCH, KEMPLEY
13 miles from Orcop Parish
Delightful Norman church, displaying one of the most outstandingly complete and well preserved sets of medieval wall paintings in England, dating from the 12th and 14th centuries.
ARTHUR'S STONE
13 miles from Orcop Parish
An atmospheric Neolithic burial chamber, made of great stone slabs in the hills above Herefordshire's Golden Valley.
ST BRIAVELS CASTLE
15 miles from Orcop Parish
The fine twin-towered gatehouse, built by Edward I in 1292, once defended a crossbow bolt factory which used local iron. Once a prison, now a youth hostel in wonderful walking country.