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Bodenham is worth a stop: 10 minutes from Hope under Dinmore, 33km from Gospel Pass.
Bodenham is in England, United Kingdom. You drive on the left here. The nearest town is Hope under Dinmore, about 4 km away.
Bodenham is a village and civil parish in Herefordshire, England, and on a bend in the River Lugg, about seven miles south of Leominster. According to the 2001 census, it had a population of 1,024, reducing to 998 at the 2011 census.
The village is mentioned twice in the Domesday Book, where is described as having aRead more
mill and 34 households. Lords of the two manors were Osbern, the son of Richard, and Edwy in 1066, and Osbern, the son of Richard, and Herbert (of Furches) in 1086.
Anne Devereux, the Countess of Pembroke, was born at Bodenham.
Bodenham church is St Michael and All Angels. It has a pub, England's Gate, and a school, St Michael's CofE Primary School.
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Within an hour or so of Bodenham: Shelsley Walsh Speed Hill Climb (23 km), Morgan Motor Company (26 km), Hay-on-Wye (31 km), Gospel Pass (33 km).
The nearest famous roads are Gospel Pass, A466 Wye Valley (Chepstow to Monmouth) and Elan Valley Mountain Road (Rhayader to Aberystwyth).
Bodenham is in England, United Kingdom, about 4 km from Hope under Dinmore.
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Full driving guide for United Kingdom8 notable places within an hour's drive.
racetrack
The world's oldest motorsport venue still using its original course, running since 1905. A 1,000-yard blast up a wooded Worcestershire hillside, steeped in Edwardian racing heritage.
23 km · about 25 min drive
landmark
The last family-owned British car maker in Malvern, offering factory tours where hand-crafted sports cars are built.
26 km · about 30 min drive
landmark
World-famous 'Town of Books' on the Welsh border, packed with second-hand bookshops and host to a renowned annual literary festival.
31 km · about 35 min drive
mountain pass
The highest road pass in Wales at 549m, a narrow single-track lane over the Black Mountains between Hay-on-Wye and Llanthony, with vast views across the Wye Valley from beneath Hay Bluff.
33 km · about 40 min drive
scenic viewpoint
A famous viewpoint 504 feet above the River Wye, where peregrine falcons nest and the river performs a dramatic horseshoe bend.
34 km · about 40 min drive
scenic viewpoint
The highest point of the Black Mountains at 811m, a broad peaty summit above the Vale of Ewyas and the Gospel Pass.
38 km · about 45 min drive
scenic viewpoint
A landslipped 486m ridge above Abergavenny whose split profile gave rise to the legend it cracked at the Crucifixion.
38 km · about 45 min drive
cathedral
A Norman abbey church with the tallest surviving Romanesque tower in the world, saved from dissolution by the townspeople.
40 km · about 45 min drive
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