Local Area
Food & Drink
Pensons on the Netherwood estate is a Michelin-starred restaurant set in an old barn.
Ludlow, half an hour away, offers five more Michelin-starred restaurants including Mortimers and Old Downton Lodge.
The 16th century Fox Inn at Broadheath, near Tenbury, is recommended by Camra.
With its thatched roof, the Live and Let Live on Bringsty Common, near Bromyard, was once a cider house and has been slaking famers’ thirsts for 500 years.
The Peacock Inn in Tenbury has a wood-panelled bar.
Legges of Bromyard is a first-class butcher with its own pies, sausages and cheeses.
Cider and Perry tastings are held at Little Pomona .
Outings
Three Chimneys makes a good base for Eastnor Castle’s pop festivals Lakefest and Eldorado, Upton on Severn’s convivial jazz and blues festivals, Worcester music festival and the internationally celebrated Three Choirs festival. For bookworms there’s the Ledbury poetry festival and Hay literary festival. House and gardens addicts can visit two properties landscaped by Capability Brown, Kyre Park and Berrington Hall. Burford House is home to the national clematis collection, the National Trust’s Brockhampton house is a moated, 15th century gem and Witley Court is 17th century Italianate, a romantic ruin with glorious grounds. Ralph Court Gardens is aimed at youngsters with its dragon pool and an elves’ forest. The Three Counties Show in Malvern is a fixture of the agricultural year, offering everything from sheep-shearing to motorcycle stunts and cooking demos. Its showground also stages the RHS spring show and the Malvern autumn show. For sport, there’s county cricket at Worcester’s New Road, horse racing at Worcester and Cheltenham, premiership rugby at Gloucester and the hill-climb at Shelsley Walsh, oldest motorsport event in the world. Give youngsters a taste of horseback riding at Noakes Farm Riding Centre or take the family for a windblown walk to the top of British Camp at the end of the Malvern Hills, where ancient warriors once dug in against the Romans. Centuries later a young man called Edward Elgar walked his dogs there while composing Land Of Hope And Glory. The Regal at Tenbury Wells is a retro’ cinema that doubles as a picture house and arts centre. And if none of that grabs you, and you only want to think about Daleks, try Bromyard’s tiny Time Machine Museum, devoted to the life and times of Dr Who.
