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Lights, music, action – at Ross Reinvented

Ross-on-Wye hosts a festival of music, drama, children’s theatre and virtual reality between 15-17 March 2019.

Organiser createROSS hopes it will be the start of a much more ambitious project. The festival opens on Friday 15 with a soul party featuring live band – ‘The Mighty Pledge’.

Saturday sees the arrival of ‘The Orchestra of The Swan’ – a classical treat and ‘Kids Sunday’ features the brilliant puppets of ‘Noisy Oyster’ in a circus performance.

There will also be performances of ‘Hush Now, Hidden Women’ in the town centre on Saturday. The festival ends on Sunday afternoon with the launch of a virtual reality project, the reinstatement of John Kyrle’s Fountain up on the Prospect.

This is the first stage of what is hoped will be an ongoing town-wide project: the ‘Museum Without Walls’.

More information here: createRoss. Tickets and prices here. See news section for details of performers.

Ross-on-Wye is voted UK’s best loved market town

Ross-on-Wye has been voted the UK’s best-loved market town by a leading coach tour company.

National Express Managing Director Tom Stables said: “With its picturesque location and stunning Market House it’s hardly surprising Ross-on-Wye is regarded as one of the best towns in the UK. It’s tough to think of anything more quintessentially British than a market town and we think that’s worth celebrating”.

Revealed: The UK’s favourite market towns:
1. Ross-on-Wye (Herefordshire)
2. Thirsk (North Yorkshire)
3. Grantham (Lincolnshire)
4. Bedford (Bedfordshire)
5. Shepton Mallet (Somerset)
6. Chippenham (Wiltshire)
7. Ledbury (Herefordshire)
8. Tie: Bridport (Dorset) Devizes (Wiltshire)
9. Wareham (Dorset)
10. Farnham (Surrey)

Rick Stein brings taste of Mexico

Restaurateur and TV personality Rick Stein is the latest celebrity to visit Ross-on-Wye. A guest of enterprising local bookstore Rossiter Books, he signed copies of his latest culinary hardback, ‘Mexico’ for fans who queued along the High Street to meet him.

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‘Gastro Ross-on-Wye’ reputation grows

The flavours of the east meet the taste buds of the west as yet another culinary destination opens its doors in the town.

Ross-on-Wye’s Turkish Meze Bar can be found at 9 High Street (next door to another successful eatery, Avellino – which recently earned rave reviews in a leading restaurant blog).

This reinforces Ross-on-Wye’s growing reputation as a ‘gastro town’.

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Ross-on-Wye Tourism (RTA) members

Not all members appear here but should do in time.

Caroline Utting chairs the RTA and is a town councillor and on the committees of createROSS, Ross Children’s Projects, The Blake Memorial Garden Volunteers and The Hedgehog Festival.

Yolande Watson Treasurer of the RTA and Chair of the Hedgehog Festival. In her spare time, she enjoys living her self sufficient lifestyle.

David Callinan is a former journalist and PR consultant. He is now a full-time novelist and author and acts as PR/press officer for RTA.

Alastair Stevenson has had an extensive career in tourism from Aviemore to Trusthouse Forte and Holiday Inn. He ran his own hotel and tourism consultancy until he retired.

Sue Williams has owned Gallery 54 for 12 years before which taught at various local comprehensive schools for 35 years.

Amanda Price is the tourism officer with the RTA. She owns Mandy Moo’s dog friendly café.

Restaurants, pubs & cafés

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Coach trips welcome – shops, walks, history, restaurants

Visitors have always loved Ross-on-Wye and many thousands flock to the town throughout the year arriving by coach. They come for the shops, the walks, the history trail, the Tudor buildings, the river Wye, he restaurants and bars.

The town welcomes coach operators and provides parking in convenient locations. A map of the town with all car parks listed can be found under the Location tab on the menu bar.

New town guide

ROSS-ON-WYE TOWN GUIDE

Look out for the new guide to Ross-on-Wye and find out where to visit, where to eat and drink and where to have fun. The guide is a available from all Tourist Information Sites and in other locations around the town.

Accommodation folder

Ross-on-Wye is brimful of choice when it comes to accommodation, from cosy B&Bs, to comfortable self-catering houses and cottages, and upmarket hotels.

Information to help you choose can be found on the ‘Where To Stay’ section of this site.

For those who prefer not to browse online, the tourist association has produced its latest accommodation folder with details of up to fifty establishments to suit all tastes and pockets.

Folders are available at all the Tourist Information locations around the town. Details on this page.

Phoenix Theatre, Ross-on-Wye

For details of theatre and film performances call 01989 564570

Wye Valley River Festival – biannual event (click image)

BBC’s Countryfile visits Herefordshire (see blog post)

BBC's flagship programme visits the county (see blog post)

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