Aymestrey
St John the Baptist and St Alkmund's Church, Aymestrey
Aymestrey Location within Herefordshire
Population	351 (2011 Census)
District	Herefordshire
Shire county	Herefordshire
Region	West Midlands
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Leominster
Postcode district	HR6
Police	West Mercia
Fire	Hereford and Worcester
Ambulance	West Midlands
UK Parliament	North Herefordshire
List of places UK England Herefordshire 52°17′N 2°50′W / 52.283°N 2.833°W / 52.283; -2.833

Aymestrey ( /ˈeɪmstriː/ AYM-stree) is a village and civil parish in north-western Herefordshire, England. The population of this civil parish, including the hamlet of Yatton, at the 2011 Census was 351.^[1]

Location

It is located on the A4110 road, about 7 miles north-west of Leominster and 8 miles south-west of the historic market town of Ludlow, in south Shropshire. The village is on the River Lugg.

Amenities and history

Aymestrey is home to several homes and cottages,^[2] the church dedicated to St John the Baptist and St Alkmund,^[3][4] a village hall^[5] and a pub or Inn: The Riverside Inn,^[6] situated next to River Lugg^[7] just off the main road.

The Mortimer Trail^[8] waymarked recreational walk passes through the village.

In 1987, the Aymestrey burial, an Early Bronze Age, beaker cist, was discovered during gravel working.^[9] It has since been recreated at Leominster Museum.

In fiction

Aymestrey is featured in the supernatural crime novel Foxglove Summer by Ben Aaronovitch, where it is described as being "less a village than a diorama of the last six hundred years of English vernacular architecture stretched along either side of the road.”