Weobley, Herefordshire -11th Century Village real photo Friths postcard c.1950s

Postcard
• Picture / Image:  '11th Century Black and White Village of Weobley', Herefordshire - real photo type?
• Publisher:  Friths series
• Postally used:  no - has stamp but no messages and not sent
• Stamp:  3d purple Wilding - unfranked - corner bend
• Postmark(s):  n/a
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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information (internal links may not  work) :

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Weobley is a black and white village in Herefordshire, England.

The name possibly derives from 'Wibba's Ley', a ley being a woodland glade and Wibba being a local Saxon landowner. In the Domesday Book the village name was transcribed as Wibelai. It is still pronounced as ""Web-ley"" (the spelling being similar to nearby Leominster which also does not pronounce the letter 'o' in its name).

In the Saxon period it is known that brewing and glove-making were carried out in the village.

The village has an historic church, the Church of St Peter and St Paul, with a Norman south doorway, a 13th-century chancel and 14th-century tower and a spire that is the second-tallest in the county; castle ruins; a high school and a primary school with a pioneering system of heating.

In the village is 'the Throne', a large 400 year old box - King Charles I spent the night here on 5 September 1645, after the Battle of Naseby during the English Civil War.

It was once incorporated as a borough, sending two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons until the Reform Act 1832, (see Weobley (UK Parliament constituency) and once had a borough corporation.

In 2001 the artist Walenty Pytel completed a sculpture of a magpie for the village (a magpie is the village's emblem). The sculpture was commissioned after the village won the Calor Gas/Daily Telegraph Great Britain Village of the Year in 1999.^[1]

The term black and white village refers to several old English villages, typically in the county of Herefordshire, West Midlands of England.

The term ""black and white"" derives from presence of many timbered and half-timbered houses in the area, some dating from medieval times. The buildings' black oak beams are exposed on the outside, with white painted walls between. The numbers of houses surviving in this style in the villages creates a very distinctive impression and differs from building styles outside this area.

It was probably^{[citation needed]} only during the late Victorian age that it become fashionable to finish the buildings in a black and white veneer. In earlier times, the oak would not have been stained, but retained its natural colour and the walls would have reflected the colour of the local clay, generally a pink colour, rather than a white whitewash lime.

A 40-mile (64 km) circular tourist trail known as the ""Black and White Village Trail"" was developed in 1987 as a means of encouraging tourists to take a closer look at the Herefordshire villages, heritage and countryside. The trail was developed mainly for travel by car, but it is also possible to make the journey by bicycle. Many coach tours now take in the trail also.

• Dilwyn
• Eardisley
• Kingsland
• Weobley
• Wigmore
• Yarpole
• Lyonshall
• Pembridge
• Eardisland

type=real photographic (rp)

city/ region=weobley

period=post-war (1945-present)

publisher=friths

postage condition=unposted

number of items=single

size=standard (140x89 mm)