Cradley, Herefordshire

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Cradley

Coordinates: 52.1220° N 2.3877° W
OS grid reference	SO735471
Unitary authority	Herefordshire
Ceremonial county	Herefordshire
Region	West Midlands
Constituent country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Worcester
Postcode district	WR13
Police	West Mercia
Fire	Hereford and Worcester
Ambulance	West Midlands
UK Parliament	Leominster
European Parliament	West Midlands
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Cradley is a small village in Herefordshire. The nearest towns are Ledbury, 14 km to the south, and Bromyard, 15 km to the north west, in Herefordshire and Malvern, Worcestershire, 7 km to the south east on the other side of the Malvern Hills.

Cradley has a village shop, a butchers and a doctors' surgery. It is quite an upmarket village and is regarded as a good neighbourhood.

[edit] Places of interest

St James Church. The chancel was added by Sir George Gilbert Scott in 1868.^[1] Pevsner also mentions a mediaeval lychgate, a font dated 1722 and the remains of a previous carved font incorporated into a doorway in the tower.