THERE’S just over a week to go until the Kington Spring Walking Festival gets underway.

Taking place from Friday to Sunday, April 21-23, the festival offers an ideal opportunity for all walkers to join organisers for a programme of spectacular walking with sublime views, welcoming pubs, good food and the great company of fellow walkers.

There are also other non-walking events attached to the festival programme, including a quiz and a concert, both taking place on Saturday, April 22.

There are a total of 13 walks on offer across the weekend, varying in length and difficulty. Take in an early evening ramble to Hergest Ridge on the Friday evening, or join the nine-mile walk entitled ‘All Aboard, Last Train to Pembridge’, on Saturday.

Or, on Sunday, why not follow in the footsteps of famous former local resident, Francis Kilvert, the English clergyman whose diaries reflected rural life in the 1870s. You can see his grave and learn a little about his remarkable short life and connection with this area.

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In addition to the events and walks on the programme there will be a free concert, made possible by a grant from Kington Town Council, at St Mary’s Church, Kington, at 7.30pm on Saturday night, featuring a lively programme of Latin, pop, classical, musical theatre and film music, played by Ludlow Concert Band.

Tickets, which also include free interval refreshments, can be collected from Border Bean Café in Kington or reserved online at office@kingtonparishes.org.uk.

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When you are visiting Kington, you might like to view the latest addition to the town, the new public sculpture, entitled ‘the Walking Dog of Kington’, installed outside the museum on March 21 this year. ‘Fly’, by sculptor Rachel Ricketts, celebrates Kington’s walking town identity and draws on the local legends that inspired the Sherlock Holmes tale, ‘The Hound of the Baskervilles’.

Kington sits on the border between the green and pleasant land of Herefordshire, famous for apples, beef and beer, and the wild and beautiful uplands of Powys, and makes a perfect base for everyone interested in walking, from strenuous hill walking to leisurely strolls along gentle river valleys.

For walks and booking, visit the https://www.kingtonwalks.org/index.php/festival-program website.