Parkway is a hamlet centred south of the market town of

Ledbury Ledbury is a market town and civil parish in the county of Herefordshire, England, lying east of Hereford, and west of the Malvern Hills. It has a significant number of Tudor style timber-framed structures, in particular along Church Lane a ...

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, centred on the direct single-carriageway north-south

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main approach to the town from the M50 motorway. Parkway is sparsely populated and its land mainly consists of

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, five mainly arable farms with farm houses and about 25 other houses. The place derives its name from Parkway Corner, itself from adjoining Dingwood Park, "a house about mile south south-east of Ledbury church, two storeys tall with a basement; the walls of which are brick with stone dressings and the roofs tiled. It was built late in the 17th century on a square plan with a small projecting wing on the south-east This wing was subsequently extended to the east." It is a listed building in the middle category, Grade II*. Parkway had in the 20th century a hall used to host

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matches and local meetings. The locality is the extreme south of the ecclesiastical and civil parish (town council area) of Ledbury.{{Cite web, url=https://www.achurchnearyou.com/search/?lat=52.019577&lon=-2.409607000000051&place=ChIJSUkx3edUcEgReNI0tZiRZzs&text=, title = A Church Near You Hospital Wood immediately east of a brief section the middle section of the main road and spreading a little further north and south is home to wildlife such as pine martens,

deer A deer (: deer) or true deer is a hoofed ruminant ungulate of the family Cervidae (informally the deer family). Cervidae is divided into subfamilies Cervinae (which includes, among others, muntjac, elk (wapiti), red deer, and fallow deer) ...

fox Foxes are small-to-medium-sized omnivorous mammals belonging to several genera of the family Canidae. They have a flattened skull; upright, triangular ears; a pointed, slightly upturned snout; and a long, bushy tail ("brush"). Twelve species ...

es and a variety of

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s. Parkway has a garage.

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Hamlets in Herefordshire Ledbury