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Ross-on-Wye
Market town in Herefordshire, England

Ross-on-Wye

Ross-on-Wye is a market town and civil parish in Herefordshire, England, near the border with Wales.

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It had a population estimated at 10,978 in 2021. It lies in the south-east of the county, on the River Wye and on the northern edge of the Forest of Dean.

Get in

Getting to Ross-on-Wye

Ross-on-Wye is on the A40 road from Fishguard to London. The M50 motorway starts near Ross-on-Wye. Stagecoach run services from Hereford and Gloucester every hour or so. There is a Nick Maddy Coaches service to Monmouth every other hour and a Stagecoach route to Monmouth four times a day. There is no railway station in Ross. The nearest one is Ledbury around 8 miles north east.

See

Worth seeing

  1. 01
    Parish Church of St Mary's

    Built between 1280 and 1316 with a prominent spire visible for miles around.

  2. 02
    Goodrich Castle

    Castle Ln, Goodrich, HR9 6HY (6 miles south-west of Ross-on-Wye),.

  3. 03
    Yat Rock

    A 120-m-high natural rock escarpment with an awesome panoramic view.

  4. 04
    Iron Age hill fort at Capler
Do

Things to do

  1. 01
    The Phoenix Theatre

    Palace Pound, Saint Mary's St, HR9 5HT,.

  2. 02
    Bandstand Concerts

    Outdoor summer concerts, in a bandstand which opened in 2005.

Eat

Where to eat

  1. 01
    Yaks n Yetis

    1 Brookend St, HR9 7EG,.

  2. 02
    Zam Zam Café

    23 High St, HR9 5BZ,.

  3. 03
    Burger Star

    34A Gloucester Rd, HR9 5BS,.

  4. 04
    Seven Seas Fish Bar

    22 Broad St, HR9 7EA,.

  5. 05
    Moody Cow

    Upton Bishop,.

Text adapted from Wikipedia and Wikivoyage, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Wikimedia Commons (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.