The Best of Herefordshires Golden Valley & Welsh Borderland
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The Black and White Trail. The Olchon Valley circuit — the highest point of southern England. The Golden Valley round. The Golden and Olchon valleys.
Soils Guide - Associations
Exploring the Wye Valley. Fownhope and Haugh Woods.
In the dry country around Hereford, grass growth is checked by drought in the summer months. Elsewhere grass yields well for most of the year and the adequate surface bearing strength enables Bromyard and Eardiston pastures to be used with negligible poaching risk for all but the wettest winter periods.
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New leys on these soils have a surface bearing strength less than that of old grassland with its protective turf mat, and along with most pastures on the Middleton series, these have a significant poaching risk. Stocking rates and the time of grazing therefore need careful judgement.
Bromyard and Middleton soils are water retentive and have low bearing strength when at or near field capacity. At such times cultivations should be avoided.
Unless mismanaged or compacted, Bromyard soils can be worked in winter and spring after a rain-free period of about five days. In spring, especially in Shropshire, such periods are few and autumn cultivations are preferable. Early autumn ploughing is essential on Middleton soils and in wet years is usually impossible after September without causing structural damage.
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Because of their large silt and fine sand contents, the soils are particularly susceptible to capping and subsequent erosion, when recently ploughed or sparsely vegetated-especially where organic matter contents are small under long-term cultivation. The risks are greatest in autumn or winter when heavy rain falls on already saturated ground or in summer when thunder storms follow a dry spell. Periodic sheet and gully erosion over the centuries have given a characteristic pattern of shallow soils on brows and on headlands at the tops of fields, and deep colluvial soils on the upper sides of hedge banks and on footslopes.
The shallow eroded soils give droughty patches with relatively small crop yields. Bromyard association soils become acid in the surface where unlimed, but pH increases with depth and is often neutral within 1 m, where the substratum is slightly calcareous. They usually have low or very low available phosphorus and although available potassium can also be low, Bromyard soils have considerable slowly available reserves Arnold and Close Eardiston soils tend to have moderate levels of potassium which is unusual for a coarse loamy soil.
Adequate magnesium is available and deficiency symptoms are rare. Boron deficiency is sometimes noted in swedes.
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Welsh Borders Cycling Info Kilpeck Church - Small Norman church with exquisite sandstone carvings portraying an extraordinary variety of animals, birds, people, mythic creatures, and Celtic images, including a Sheila-na-gig [on left in left photo below] on the corbel gargoyles and a Green Man [right photo] either side of the door and west window.
Also note house-platforms of deserted mediaeval village in field next to church, and scant remains of the castle. Kilpeck village is 8 miles SW of Hereford. Dore Abbey - This wonderful barn-like church once a great abbey is well worth a visit. Stop and read the unfortunate wording of the inscription above the lych gate [photo below].
Abbey Dore village is SW of Hereford. Hellens - Probably the most interesting old house in Herefordshire - well worth a visit. Situated in the village of Much Marcle between Ledbury and Ross-on-Wye which is also worth a visit for the church with its rare wooden effigy inside, opposite main door and hollow yew tree in the churchyard which can seat 7 cyclists inside - but you can never see more than 5 cyclists in any of the photos [photo].