Marches Tours & Talks
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Our Guides

MT&T provides professional, fully insured guides who will entertain and inform small groups in coaches, cars or on foot about the unspoilt and tranquil Marches area.

Arthur's Stone
Arthur's Stone

Guides can accompany you on introductory excursions covering "a bit of everything", and we can enhance your special interest tours by going into more detail and depth – we can even help you find the villages where your ancestors lived and died.

Several of our guides offer illustrated talks on a variety of topics - click here for more details. Our guides have a vast amount of experience of many subjects - why not test us? We are sure you will be pleasantly surprised! We pride ourselves on being able to find a guide to match your needs.

Contact these members direct, or contact our co-ordinator to see who else is available and for advice on tour planning.

Andrew Jenkinson – tel. 01938 820700 andrew@scenesetters.co.uk
(for walks and illustrated talks in Shropshire)
walks all over Shropshire: geology, wildlife, landscape history, Shropshire Union Canal and inland waterways. Editor – ‘Explore the Marches’ newspaper.
Michael Leech – tel./fax 01981 540520

(for tours and talks on all matters horticultural)
Extensive knowledge of local gardens and their history – a garden specialist.

Ruth Parry – tel. 01873 860276 ruth@ruthparry.orangehome.co.uk
(for talks and walking tours)
A wide knowledge of the whole Olchon and Golden Valley area right on the Welsh Border - an expert on the history of the Borough of Longtown and its castle.
Penny Platts – tel. 01981 550150 penny@platts31.freeserve.co.uk
(for all kinds of general tours and illustrated talks)
HETB registered guide for Herefordshire
Official Cathedral Guide, local churches through the ages, cider and vineyards, Black and White villages, walking tours of Hereford City, Ledbury, Ross on Wye. Searching for the local places where your ancestors lived and to assist you in tracing your Family History.
Jeremy Plummer – tel. 01544 340459 tessa.plummer@ukonline.co.uk
(for town walks and tours)
Blue Badge Guide for Southern Tourist Board (ie Salisbury/Winchester/Bath)
Walking tours of Leominster and Hereford, and tours of Black and White Villages (also a B&B accommodation provider.)
Clive & Cynthia Prior – tel. 01547 540441 mocktreebarns@care4free.net
(for talks and tours on ecology and landscape)
experts on the Ludlow/Wigmore area. Experts in all aspects of landscape studies and land use. Self-catering accommodation providers. www.mocktreeholidays.co.uk
Robert Soldat – tel. 01497 820527
(nothing after 1500!! Wonderful storyteller.)
Tours of Hay-on-Wye and Hay Castle, talks and tours on folklore and early local history – expert on the Wars of the Roses and local battle sites i.e. Mortimer’s Cross
Robert Williams – tel. 01544 318999 bobwilliams@farmersweekly.net
Landscape interpretation for every level of interest, Black and White Villages, farming and forestry. Talks on Murchison/landscape of the Marches/agriculture.
Fay Wrixon – tel. 01544 318247 fay@wrixon.co.uk
Blue Badge Guide – all kinds of tours of the area: historical, cider, agriculture etc. Conference planning a speciality.
Dennis Downey - North Herefordshire Conducted Country Walking
tel. 01568 61441 or 07787 331863 downey@leominster74.freeserve.co.uk
Let us take the hassle out of your country walk plans by personally guiding you on a walk in the beautiful countryside of North Herefordshire.We can offer a full range of Walks all designed to your individual requirements. Our service is available to individuals, families, groups upto 30 people. Contact us now for your own individual itinerary. Our most unusual request to date is to organise a Hen Party Weekend.
37 Hereford Road, Leominster, Herefordshire, HR6 8JS
Visit our website at www.walkherefordshire.com

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Hop Picking
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