Over 130 producers from the local Welsh Marches area bring their wares to Ludlow Castle for the annual Ludlow Food Festival. Besides its Michelin-starred restaurants, this medieval Shropshire town hosts the mother of all British food festivals.
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Sep 2013 (annual)
Built on a site in use for Christian worship since Saxon times, Hereford Cathedral contains some of the finest examples of architectural excellence from Norman times up to the present day. Particularly noteworthy are the beautifully-restored Shrine of St Thomas of Hereford in the North Transept and the exquisite Early English Lady Chapel. The "high-tech Medieval" New Library Building, completed in 1996, houses the Mappa Mundi & Chained Library exhibitions, presenting two of Britain's most important historical treasures.
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Daily
The Hay Festival is among the largest literary get-togethers in the English-speaking world. The event annually attracts up to 50,000 people to the Welsh Marches for a programme of interviews, lectures, readings and performances featuring distinguished authors.
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May - Jun 2013 (annual)
One of England's most celebrated composers, Sir Edward Elgar, composer of Pomp and Circumstance, is remembered in Worcester's Elgar Birthplace Museum. A curiously small place given his great legacy, this cosy museum is actually the house he was born in.
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Feb - Dec 2013 (annual)
The Big Chill summer festival celebrates another glorious weekend in the lush surroundings of Eastnor Castle deer park in the Malvern Hills. One of the country's most relaxed festivals, it continues to attract the biggest names in laid-back dance music.
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Aug 2013 (annual)
Defying gravity and dense terrain between the Cotswolds and the Welsh Marches, mountain bikers descend once again on Eastnor Castle Deer Park for Mountain Mayhem. The centrepiece of the weekend is the world's biggest 24-hour mountain biking festival.
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Jun 2013 (annual)
The enormous Three Counties Show at the Malvern Showground brings together classes of sheep, pigs, poultry, cattle and horses, flower and dog shows. There are trade stalls and fine homemade foods on sale. Main events include carriage-driving.
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Jun 2013 (annual)
The Royal Horticultural Society hosts the Malvern Autumn Garden & Country Show at Malvern Showground at the base of the Malvern Hills, rounding off the gardening year with panache. The event is based around the Royal Horticultural Society Floral Marquee.
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Sep 2013 (annual)
The Friends Life T20 begins with a group format in June, before quarter finals in July and Finals Day at Southampton's Rose Bowl in August. Worcestershire Royals play their home games at the County Ground in Worcester.
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Jun - Aug 2013 (annual)
Worcestershire Cricket Club is one of the 18 major counties that play in the current English domestic cricket leagues. The County Ground has been home to the side since 1899 and maintains its charm and is a popular venue within the championship.
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Daily
Worcester City Art Gallery & Museum hosts a programme of exhibitions by contemporary artists and also maintains its own historic picture collection. Also on display are historic artefacts such as an old Worcester sauce machine.
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Daily; not Sun
Built between 1084 and 1375, Worcester Cathedral still boasts some monastic buildings, including the chapel house, cloistered herb gardens and the monks' refectory. The Lady Chapels also still stand and the Norman crypt holds the tombs of King John and Prince Arthur.
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Daily
Themed galleries trace the history of porcelain in Worcester, beginning with the Georgian Gallery, which introduces visitors to the earliest items made in Worcester, in the 1750s. A feature gallery hosts special and temporary exhibitions.
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Daily
With walls made from horsehair and mud, Tudor House isn't your typical museum. Located in Worcester's historic centre, the museum has timber beams, leaded windows, decorated plaster ceilings and exhibitions that visitors are actively encouraged to touch and explore.
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Wed and Sat only
The 11th-century Goodrich Castle near the banks of the River Wye is one of Herefordshire's most popular visitor attractions. It boasts one of the most complete sets of medieval domestic buildings surviving in any English castle.
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Daily
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