Leominster Attractions

Leominster (pronounced Lemster; pop. 8,700), is a beautiful old wool town on the River Lugg, situated among orchards and hop fields. Leominster has a number of black and white half-timbered houses and a triple-aisled church dating from the 12th, 13th and 14th centuries. Originally belonging to a priory, the church has a Perpendicular tower over the Norman west doorway. In the north choir aisle is a ducking stool, last used in 1809, on which nagging wives were dipped in the river.