Bircher, Herefordshire
| Yarpole | |
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 St Leonard's belltower |
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 Yarpole
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| Yarpole shown within Herefordshire | |
| OS grid reference | SO4664 |
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| Ceremonial county | |
| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Hereford |
| Postcode district | HR6 |
| Dialling code | 01568 |
| Police | West Mercia |
| Fire | Hereford and Worcester |
| Ambulance | West Midlands |
| EU Parliament | West Midlands |
| UK Parliament | |
| Website | http://www.yarpole.com/ |
Yarpole is a village in Croft and Yarpole civil parish, Herefordshire, England, about 4 1⁄2 miles (7 km) northwest of Leominster. The village is near the county boundary with Shropshire and about 7 miles (11 km) southwest of Ludlow. The civil parish includes the hamlets of Bicton south of the village, Bircher northeast of the village, and Croft.
The oldest part of St Leonard's Church of England parish church is the 13th-century font. Most of the building is early 14th-century and was restored and extended to designs by George Gilbert Scott in 1864. It is a Grade II* listed building. In 2009 the interior of the church was extensively reordered and a community shop and Post Office were built at the west end of the church.
Yarpole is one of several Herefordshire parishes whose belltower stands separate from the church. The ground stage is built of stone; the roofs and upper stage are timber-framed. It is one of a number of partly or largely timber-framed belltowers in Herefordshire. It is a Grade I listed building. The tower was thought to be 13th-century, but dendrochronology has dated its main timbers to 1192, making it one of the oldest timber-framed structures in England.
The village has a pub, The Bell, that is now a gastropub. There is also a parish hall.
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