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Yarpole is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Croft and Yarpole, Herefordshire, England, about 4.5 miles (7 km) north-west of Leominster. The village is near the county boundary with Shropshire and about 7 kilometres (4 mi) south-west of Ludlow. The hamlet of Bicton is to the south, Bircher to the north-east and Croft to the west. In 1961 the parish had a population of 394. On 1 April 1987 the parish was abolished and merged with Croft to form "Croft and Yarpole".
The village has a gastropub, The Bell, and a parish hall.
The Village is used as the setting for the home of Gerald War Bow in the Medieval action series of 5 books “Lord Edward’s Archer” by author Griff Hosker.




Church


The parish church of St Leonard's is Grade II* listed. Most of the building dates to the early 14th century, its oldest part being the 13th-century font. The church was restored and extended to designs by George Gilbert Scott in 1864. In 2009 the interior of the church was extensively reordered and a community shop and post office were built at the west end. Yarpole is one of several Herefordshire parishes whose belltower stands separate from the church. The Grade I listed tower dates to the 13th-century, the ground stage built of stone, with the roofs and upper stage timber-framed. It is one of a number of partly or largely timber-framed belltowers in Herefordshire. The dendrochronology dating of its main timbers to 1192 makes it one of the oldest timber-framed structures in England. The writer, painter and lawyer Fred Uhlman is buried in the churchyard.




References






Further reading


Pevsner, Nikolaus (1963). Herefordshire. The Buildings of England. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. p. 327.
RCHME, ed. (1934). "Yarpole". An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Herefordshire. Vol. 3, North West. London: Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England. pp. 215–217.




External links


Media related to Yarpole at Wikimedia Commons
Yarpole Group Parish Council

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Yarpole
• Croft and Yarpole
• Henrietta Litchfield
• Fishpool Valley
• Richard Buckley Litchfield
• Bicton, Herefordshire
• Richard Knight (1659–1745)
• List of places in Herefordshire
• George Gilbert Scott
• Claude Bosi