St. Lawrence’s Church, Stands on the hillside high above the A443. Look out for the School Sign on sharp bend in the road. Steep steps lead to the church, park at the bottom of the steps away from the entrance to the school. The Nags Head is 200 yards away; nearest petrol is in . St. Andrew’s Church, St. Mary Magdalene’s Church, A remote church the other side of the . Signposted up Court Drive in the Situated down a narrow lane off the A44, grounds of the Midland Automobile Club. watch out for the signpost. Parking Parking is available. Visit Southstone Rock, the available. A Conservation Walk along a source of the tufa stone. Nearest facilities are permissive pathway follows the river bank. in Clifton-upon-Teme and at Stanford Bridge. Look for the signs near the church. Visit The Royal Oak on the A44.

St. Andrew’s Church, Signposted off the A443, the church is situated beside the road that leads from Stanford Bridge to Stockton. Park by the verge outside the church. Visit The Bridge Inn at Stanford Bridge.

St. Leonard’s Church, Signposted off the A44. Park in front of the church. Details of several walks can be found inside the church. Walk from here to Elgar’s birthplace in Lower Broadheath and visit The Plough Inn next door. St. Peter’s Church, Situated down a narrow lane near the centre of the village. Signposted off the B4204 Worcester to Martley road. Park by the Millennium Green near the church. Many local walks, visit http://www.thepathornones.co.uk/. Visit the Central Stores and the Crown Inn in the centre of the village, fill up with petrol from the garage! Visit The Admiral Rodney at nearby . More To Explore M54

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SHARING HISTORY Go West from Worcester follow the river Teme into the Marches, & HERITAGE the borderlands of and Wales FOOD AND HERITAGE TRAIL - AUDIO COMMENTARY An audio WITH CHILDREN commentary accompanies this Food and Heritage Trail. It has a special section for children engaged on a Heritage Quest and in - cludes information about many more of the churches marked on Become Heritage the map. Local people share their memories of this beautiful area Detectives, try a and farmers, landowners and schoolchildren talk about their hopes Heritage Quest! for its future. The CD is available from some Tourist Information Centres. Alternatively, download it from www.temevalley.org.uk These all age family activities are for parents or grandparents onto your own MP3 player or send a £5 cheque made out to the and children. They combine Go West Teme Valley Project and address to The Hay Loft, The Old fresh air, exercise and fun. All Vicarage, Stoulton, Worcester, WR7 4RE. members of the group need to Come back time and time again. Use the map to plan your own work together to complete a route and don’t forget to take home something from the Quest ! Teme Valley Kitchen.

Download a Quest Pack - Visit www.temevalley.org.uk and fol - THE GO WEST TEME VALLEY PROJECT is a rural regeneration low the links to Quest Packs - the children can do this! project run by volunteers. It is an initiative of the ecumenical Chaplaincy for Agriculture and Rural Life in the Diocese of Worces - Sort out and make up the pieces – the pack contains every - thing you will need to complete the Quest. ter. Set up in 2002, its activities build on the history and heritage of church and countryside for the benefit of the rural community. Plan a route – keep to the footpaths shown on the plan and The Go West Management Group thanks all the schools, university you won’t go far wrong. students, Womens Institutes, Church Wardens. P.C.C.s and the indi - vidual volunteers who have taken part in the development of this Prepare for your expedition – Gather everything together, make sure everyone knows what they are doing and off you go. trail. For more information please visit www.temevalley.org.uk Explore your Quest Trail – Use the view finders, consult your ‘wonder cards’ and answer the questions. Designed and produced by Artwork Creative Limited Map reproduced from Ord - Back at base follow the instructions to complete the Quest. nance Survey mapping on be - half of The Controller of Her A Go West Food & Heritage Trail from Worces - Apply to become a Heritage Knight - For more information Majesty’s Stationary Office ter to Tenbury visit www.temevalley.org.uk and follow the links to Heritage MC100038090 Knights. © visiting Cotheridge, Broadwas, Martley, Shelsley www.temevalley.org.uk Walsh, Stockton-on-Teme & Lindridge The Teme Valley is The Teme Valley Kitchen - take a little home with you! The Teme Valley pro - 6 Happy Meats, a special place... duces fine food. Enjoy The Bank House, its hospitality; eat in its Stanford Bridge. Tranquil and beautiful - what we see and restaurants, Free-range addi - today is a landscape fashioned by cen - shop in the Markets, tive free meat. turies of farming - the stories lie be - Farm Shops and Village Open Wed. - Fri. neath the surface... Kings and noble Stores. Look out for 9am - 5pm; Surrounded by ’s hop yards and cider orchards, we grow lords have enjoyed the harvest from the labels - Teme Vale Sat. 10am - 4pm. Tel: 01886 812485. grapes, both white and red, in four acres of vineyard. Taste our wines in these parts! Christian monks in their black robes were, for hun - Sausages, Rochford the winery; tour the vineyard; visit our model vineyard; groups by dreds of years, a common sight - they owned manors, vast Meats, Berrow Honey, 7 Teme Valley Fruit, Sutton House arrangement. Open April-October, Wednesday to tracts of land and even more churches. The Benedictines have Lightwood Cheeses, Farm, Sutton, Tenbury Wells. Sunday, 11.30am-5.00pm. Other times by arrangement. long since gone and so have the trains that in the 19th and Blake House Honey, Open daily but telephone 01584 810424 Admission free Jeanie and Ian Falconer early 20th centuries took fresh milk and produce to markets in Teme Valley Fruit Juices. If you are first to check. Apple and pear juices, Dr. Paunton Court Bishops Frome Birmingham and the Black Country. People once came from the after something special, why not tele - Carol Field’s Honey and other seasonal Herefordshire WR6 5BJ Tel: 01885 490 768 Black Country to pick hops in local hop fields adding their phone first? produce. Email: [email protected] voices to the sound of farming folk going about their daily business. The greetings and banter of local farmers in their MARKETS AND FARM SHOPS VILLAGE SHOPS The Talbot at horse drawn wagons, queuing to load their freshly picked cher - 1 Teme Valley Farmers Market. 8 Central Stores, ries onto the 3 o’clock train from Knightwick station, are now Second Sunday of every month down by Martley. no more than a memory. But the stories continue... the river at the Talbot Hotel in Mon. - Fri. Knightwick. 11am - 1.30pm. 7.30am - 7pm; Local produce, goods and services. Sat. 8am - 6pm; home of The Teme Valley Sunday 8.30am - Market 2 Roots Farm Shop, . 1pm. Tel: 01886 2nd Sunday every Month Opening times Mon. - Fri. 10am - 5pm; 888728. 14th Century Inn on The River Teme. Comfortable en- Sat. 9.30am - 5pm; Sun. 10am - 1pm. suite bedrooms with the usual amenities. Noted for Tel: 01905 421104. Own organic meats 9 The Village Store, Clifton-on-Teme. menus using local, organic and vegetables plus local produce. Mon.-Sat. 9am - 6pm; Sun. 9am - and wild produce. Tel: 01886 821 235 12noon. Tel: 01886 812303. Fax: 01886 821 060 3 Email: [email protected] Knighwick Butchers Shop. Tues - Sat. 8am - 6pm. www.the-talbot.co.uk Tel: 01886 821585 . Home cured bacon and home made PICK YOUR OWN 10 Listen to the stories on the audio sausages. Asparagus, strawberries and rasp - Le Potager commentary that accompanies berries at Chapel Farm, Eastham, Tenbury Wells this trail. Switch on one of the 4 Hammonds Natural Meats, . special Stories from the Stones Pewcroft, Road, Signposted off the A443. listening posts to be found in - Knightwick. Also farm To check availability tele - side some of the ancient tours and meals for phone 01886 888243. churches that have been such a groups - by arrangement. Let us cater for you feature of the Teme Valley since Tel: 01886 884 221 Special Celebrations Norman times. Hear village Dinner Parties Weddings voices over the centuries. Explore 5 The Mill and Garden Shop, Innovative cooking for all occasions the heritage they have be - Stanford Bridge. Contact: queathed to us. Listen to the Mon. - Fri. 8am - 6pm; Karen or Chris Scales Tel: 01584 881 545 voice of the experts that care for Sat. 9am - 5pm; Sun. 9am - 1pm. Email: [email protected] them today and discover what Tel: 01886 853267. or see us at local keeps them sacred places. Local seasonal produce. farmers’ markets