Aymestrey ( ) is a village and civil parish in north-west Herefordshire, England. The population of this civil parish, including the hamlet Yatton, at the 2011 Census was 351.
Location It is located on the A4110 road, about 7 miles north-west of Leominster and 8 miles south-west of the historic market town Ludlow, in south Shropshire. The village is on the River Lugg.
Amenities and history Aymestrey is home to several homes and cottages,https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/219784 geograph.org.uk the church dedicated to St John the Baptist and St Alkmund,An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire, Volume 3 (North West), pp 9-15, HMSO, 1934, http://www.british-history.ac.uk/rchme/heref/vol3https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/635376 geograph.org.uk a village hallhttps://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/219796 geograph.org.uk and a pub or Inn: The Riverside Inn,https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/219810 geograph.org.uk situated next to River Lugghttps://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/219775 geograph.org.uk just off the main road.
The Mortimer Trailhttps://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/71159 geograph.org.uk waymarked recreational walk passes through the village.
In 1987, the Aymestrey burial, an Early Bronze Age, beaker cist, was discovered during gravel working. It has since been recreated at Leominster Museum.
In fiction Aymestrey is featured in the supernatural crime novel Foxglove Summer by Ben Aaronovitch, where it is described as being "less a village than a diorama of the last six hundred years of English vernacular architecture stretched along either side of the road."
Notable people Joshua Sasse, actor
References
External links
http://www.Aymestrey.org - Aymestrey Community Website https://web.archive.org/web/20170704022837/http://www.theriversideinn.org/ - The Riverside Inn at Aymestrey Aymestrey on Google Maps: Hybrid, Map