Orleton
Orleton is a small village and civil parish in northern Herefordshire, England, at grid reference SO493672.
Orleton is a small village and civil parish in northern Herefordshire, England, at grid reference SO493672. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 794. The village is midway between the market towns of Ludlow and Leominster, both 5 miles (8.0 km) away.
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Worth seeing in and around Orleton
4 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Berrington Hall
Berrington Hall is a country house located about 3 miles north of Leominster, Herefordshire, England. During the 20th century it was the seat of the Cawley family.
3.9 km · Grade I listed historic house museum in Herefordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02St Bartholomew's Church
St Bartholomew's Church is a redundant Anglican church in the village of Richard's Castle, Herefordshire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building, and is under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.
3.2 km · church in Richards Castle, Herefordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Dovecot at Court House
Court House Dovecote stands in the village of Richard's Castle, Herefordshire, England. The dovecote is a Grade I listed building and a scheduled monument.
2.6 km · dovecote in Richard's Castle, Herefordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04Eye Manor
Eye Manor is a Carolean manor house in Eye, Herefordshire, England. It dates from the late 17th century and was built for Ferdinando Gorges.
3.4 km · Grade I listed English country house in Eye, Moreton and Ashton, Herefordshire, England,UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Orleton
- Airports
- Birmingham (BHX), 70 km · Bristol (BRS), 102 km · Cardiff (CWL), 109 km
- Stations
- Berrington and Eye railway station, 3.4 km · Woofferton railway station, 2.4 km
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Orleton61 km · quickest by road, 1h 47m · £6–8
- Bristol → Orleton95 km · quickest by road, 2h 38m · £10–14
- Cardiff → Orleton96 km · quickest by road, 2h 37m · £11–15
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Orleton
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Orleton. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThey continue to Leominster, Hereford, Abergavenny, Newport, Cardiff, Port Talbot, Neath, Swansea, Llanelli, Carmarthen, Haverfordwest, Milford Haven and Fishguard, for ferries to Rosslare.
- Get inTrains from Holyhead (for Dublin ferries) run every two hours and take 3 hr 10 min via Llanfairpwll (etcetera etcetera) and stations along the north Wales coast, Chester, Wrexham, Chirk and Shrewsbury then as above through Ludlow to Cardiff.
From Wikivoyage: Ludlow (England), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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