A HEREFORDSHIRE writer has produced a website showcasing some of the best walks on old railway lines in Herefordshire.

Garth Lawson has put together a list of walks that formed part of an archive consisting of nearly 150 routes in and around Herefordshire.

These walks appeared every month for more than 12 years in the Hereford Times.

One of these walks plots a six-mile route around the south Herefordshire village of King's Caple.

The rural parish is bounded on three sides by an extravagant loop of the river Wye.

Its other, eastern boundary runs roughly parallel with the line of the old Hereford, Ross and Gloucester Railway.

The walk starts at the Norman motte and bailey site of Caple Tump, opposite the church.

Down the lane leading to Sellack Boat, the residence of Shieldbrook was once an inn called the Old Boar.

The route carries on through the parkland of Poulstone, before a bridle route takes the walker along the path of a Roman road and under the old railway line.

Strangford Bridge can be seen over to the right, spanning the Wye.

It then takes in Fawley Court which dates back to the early 16th century and Sir John Kyrle, a relative of the famous “Man of Ross.”

Kyrle added a new stone wing to the old timber framed house in about 1630.

There’s no pub in King’s Caple today. The last one, the British Lion, near the old station site, became a private house in March 2000.

For more information on this walk and a route map visit: http://www.herefordrailwaywalks.co.uk/two.html