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Over the Malvern Hills from Worcestershire, the rolling agricultural landscapes of Herefordshire have an easy-going charm, but the finest scenery hereabouts is along the banks of the River Wye , which wriggles and worms its way across the county linking most of the places of interest. Plonked in the middle of the county on the Wye is Hereford , a sleepy, rather old-fashioned sort of place whose proudest possession, the cathedral's remarkable Mappa Mundi map, was almost flogged off in a round of ecclesiastical budget cuts, back in the 1980s. Hereford is also close to the delightful little town of Ledbury , sitting on the edge of the Malvern Hills and distinguished by its Tudor and Stuart half-timbered buildings - sometimes called "Black and Whites". Further afield, in the southeast corner of the county, lies Ross-on-Wye , a genial little town with a picturesque river setting and an ideal base for explorations into one of the wilder portions of the Wye River Valley . To the west of Hereford, hard by the Welsh border, the key attraction is Hay-on-Wye , which has become the world's largest repository of second-hand books, on sale in around thirty bookshops. Herefordshire possesses one rail line , linking Ledbury, Hereford and Leominster and running north to Shrewsbury and east to Great Malvern and Worcester. Otherwise, you'll be restricted to the tender mercies of the county's buses , which provide a reasonable service between the villages and towns, except on Sundays when there's almost nothing at all.
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