HEREFORD Cider Museum is playing host to an exhibition about the county's building stones.

Since 2013 the Herefordshire and Worcestershire Earth Heritage Trust has been working with volunteers across the two counties on a project to trace the history of stone buildings and forgotten quarries.

Supported by funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund, the trust has been investigating 'a thousand years of building with stone', looking at a range of heritage buildings from castles and bridges to local churches, village halls and homes.

The project has been tracing where the stone for the buildings came from using archives, newspapers and other records and rediscovering forgotten local quarries through field work.

The project will be running for at least another year and volunteers are needed in Herefordshire to help with the project, with free training available.

As information is gathered it is being entered onto a database that is available online at buildingstones.org.uk

The team can be contacted by emailing building.stone@worc.ac.uk or by calling 01905 542014.

The exhibition at Hereford Cider Museum runs until mid September.