English Heritage sites near Hope Mansell Parish
GOODRICH CASTLE
3 miles from Hope Mansell Parish
Goodrich stands majestically on a wooded hill commanding the passage of the River Wye into the picturesque valley of Symonds Yat.
ST MARY'S CHURCH, KEMPLEY
7 miles from Hope Mansell Parish
Delightful Norman church, displaying one of the most outstandingly complete and well preserved sets of medieval wall paintings in England, dating from the 12th and 14th centuries.
ST BRIAVELS CASTLE
11 miles from Hope Mansell Parish
The fine twin-towered gatehouse, built by Edward I in 1292, once defended a crossbow bolt factory which used local iron. Once a prison, now a youth hostel in wonderful walking country.
OVER BRIDGE
12 miles from Hope Mansell Parish
A single-arch stone bridge spanning the River Severn, built in 1825-30 by the great engineer Thomas Telford.
BLACKFRIARS
12 miles from Hope Mansell Parish
One of the most complete surviving Dominican friaries in England, later converted into a Tudor house and cloth factory. Notable features include the church and fine scissor-braced dormitory roof.
GREYFRIARS
12 miles from Hope Mansell Parish
Substantial remains of an early Tudor friary church of Franciscan 'grey friars' founded in 1231.
Churches in Hope Mansell Parish
Hope Mansel: St Michael
School Lane
Hope Mansel
Ross-on-Wye
(01989) 568736
St Michael and All Angels, Hope Mansel, is a small village church in its beautiful valley, but still has a service every week where ‘psalms doth oft repeat man’s different ways and different state’ as an embroidered poem in the vestry has it.
Pubs in Hope Mansell Parish
Wonky Donkey
An old-style pub on the edge of the Forest of Dean. The sign suggests the pub is at Knightingsfield, but this name seems not to appear on modern maps.