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Welcome to the Yarpole Parish website - get information on events, facilities within the Parish, social groups, Yarpole Community Shop, The Bell at Yarpole, volunteering opportunities, the Parish Council, the PCC and more.
Yarpole events
May your Christmas be warm and bright.
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Welcome to Yarpole, nestling in rolling countryside in North Herefordshire, mid way between the market towns of Ludlow and Leominster.
Yarpole is a parish of approximately 700 people and comprises the villages of Yarpole, Bircher and Lucton and the communities on Bircher Common and Bicton. The Parish of Yarpole is unusual in that there are two working parish churches. St Leonard's situated in the village of Yarpole and St Michael and All Angels Church situated next to Croft Castle, a National Trust property. Many visitors assume that the church is managed by the National Trust as it is part of a visit to the estate. The National Trust does not contribute to the running costs of St Michael and All Angels church.
Yarpole through the seasons.
This Christmas why not do something to help others in need?
Why not a Reverse Advent Calendar?
In previous years, this Parish has been very generous in raising donations for those who are in need of a little help. This year we shall be running a REVERSE ADVENT CALENDAR. Rather than treating yourself every day of December in the run up to Christmas, you buy something for someone who really needs it. Simply get a bag or a box and add a new item each day – see the grid below for suggestions.
Completed boxes can be left in the church by Friday 20th December at the latest, for transportation to the foodbank. And no you don’t have to gift wrap your items. Maybe you could get together with a friend or two to make up a whole box.
Some suggestions listed below. Make your own choices; that's fine.
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1 Pasta sauce |
2 Small jar of coffee |
3 Ketchup |
4 Curry Sauce |
5 Macaroni cheese |
6 Tin of Peas |
7 Tin of Rice Pudding |
8 Jam |
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9 Packet of rice |
10 Washing Powder |
11 Shower Gel |
12 Tinned Custard |
13 Peanut Butter |
14 Tooth-paste |
15 Vegetarian Food |
16 Long life milk |
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17 Tinned Peaches |
18 Tinned Soup |
19 Tin of sweetcorn |
20 Baby Food |
21 Shaving products |
22 Washing up liquid |
23 Tinned carrots |
24 Tinned Meat |
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25 Biscuits |
THANK YOU.
Traditionally farming was the major employer in the Parish. Farming in Herefordshire remains a combination of agriculture and livestock; a mixture of sheep and cattle. Hereford cattle, which have fallen out of fashion due to their slower maturity, originated in the county. These cattle are experiencing a resurgence due to the quality of the meat they produce. The milk used by Cadbury's for its chocolate comes from the county and is processed in the factory south of Leominster.
There has been a community recorded here for over 2000 years. The village is mentioned in the Doomsday Book. The Anglo-Saxon meaning of Yarpole (Iarpol or Yarpol) is fish pool or dam for containing fish. The original fish pool has long since been abandoned, the remains of the dam wall are still visible.
Yarpole still retains its red telephone kiosk, its community owned and managed pub, The Bell at Yarpole and has an award winning community run village shop and Post Office operating from within the Parish Church, St Leonard's. The first full time shop in a church.
Mobile 'phones don't work here!