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Large, sparsely populated alluvial river valley with numerous wildlife. Car or bicycle essential.
The Wye valley from Brockhampton through Kings Caple, How Caple, Foy and Backney, features wide agricultural landscapes, quiet and unspoilt. Hares are numerous, fallow deer, stoat and weasel occasional. backsvala colony at Backney Common. Numerous breeding sånglärka. storskrake and mandarinand. Pilgrimsfalk, ägretthäger, Kohäger, Silkeshäger and lärkfalk occasional. Sävsparv and sävsångare present in riverside crops vaktel. Barbel often visible from Foy footbridge. Lakes at Fawley Court frequented by Smådopping and gråhäger.
From A40 Wilton roundabout (the one with petrol station) take Hereford exit then first right for Backney picnic site car park, or second right turn for Hoarwithy, Sellack and How Caple. parking at Kings Caple Church, Backney picnic site, and south side of Foy footbridge.
To reach Hole in the Wall and footbridge access to Foy, from A40/M50 roundabout take the Ledbury road A449 then first left on narrow road and right at Tjunction.
For the energetic, an 8 mile (12,8 km) circular walk via Sellack, Fawley Chapel, How Caple, Foy and Baysham is recommended, plus numerous shorter walks. For the 4,6 mile (7,5 km) Hoarwithy to Sellack circular walk marked on the map it is safer to take the footpaths and riverside route as the road has no pavement. Note that there is a right of way through the Hoarwithy campsite which again avoids the roadway..
Featured in the BBC series 'Hugh's Wild West' when Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall went snorkelling to see barbel close up.
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