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Pipe Aston

Pipe Aston is a small village and civil parish in the far north of Herefordshire, close to the border with Shropshire.

Pipe Aston
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The place

Pipe Aston is a small village and civil parish in the far north of Herefordshire, close to the border with Shropshire. It has a population of about 24.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Pipe Aston

6 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.

  1. 01
    Downton Castle

    Downton Castle is a grade I listed 18th-century country house in the parish of Downton on the Rock in Herefordshire, England, situated about 5 miles west of Ludlow, Shropshire.

    3.1 km · Grade I listed English country house in Herefordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Elan aqueduct

    The Elan aqueduct crosses Wales and the Midlands of England, running eastwards from the Elan Valley Reservoirs in Mid Wales to Birmingham's Frankley Reservoir, carrying drinking water for Birmingham. It delivers enormous quantities of water across the mid-Wales countryside, through north Herefordshire, south Shropshire and into the West Midlands through eleven major river valleys.

    1.9 km · aqueduct and pipework which takes water from Powys, Wales to Birmingham, England · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    High Vinnalls

    High Vinnalls is a hill in the English county of Herefordshire, though commonly considered a member of the Shropshire Hills. It is located in the parish of Pipe Aston, near the town of Ludlow, and is covered by Mortimer Forest.

    1.7 km · 375m high hill in Herefordshire, England · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    St 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 km · church in Richards Castle, Herefordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Dovecot 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.

    3.8 km · dovecote in Richard's Castle, Herefordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Gatley Park

    Gatley Park is an English 17th-century park and country house lying near Leinthall Earls, Herefordshire. Both the park and the house are separately listed, the park as Grade II and the house as a Grade II* listed building.

    3.8 km · country house and park in Leinthall Earls, Herefordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Pipe Aston

Airports
Birmingham (BHX), 72 km · Bristol (BRS), 107 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 110 km
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Pipe Aston
    62 km · quickest by road, 1h 56m · £7–9
  • Bristol → Pipe Aston
    100 km · quickest by road, 2h 52m · £12–15
  • Liverpool → Pipe Aston
    119 km · quickest by road, 2h 42m · £14–18
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Pipe Aston

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 Pipe Aston. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    183 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    211 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    391 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    427 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    449 km

If you know how people move in Pipe Aston – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Pipe Aston

  • Burringtonvillage and civil parish in Herefordshire, United Kingdom1.9 km
  • Leinthall Starkesvillage and civil parish in Herefordshire, UK3.4 km
  • Richard's Castlevillage in Herefordshire and Shropshire, England2.9 km
  • Eltonvillage in Herefordshire, England, UK1.1 km
  • Downtoncivil parish in Herefordshire, UK3.4 km