| Country: | England |
| Region: | West Midlands |
| Shire District: | Herefordshire |
| Shire County: | Herefordshire |
| Static Image Caption: | St John the Baptist and St Alkmund's Church, Aymestrey |
| Constituency Westminster: | North Herefordshire |
| Coordinates: | 52.2833°N -52°W |
| Postcode Area: | HR |
| Postcode District: | HR6 |
| Post Town: | Leominster |
| Population: | 351 |
| Population Ref: | (2011 Census) |
| Static Image Name: | St John the Baptist and St Alkmund's Church, Aymestrey - geograph.org.uk - 635376.jpg |
Aymestrey is a village and civil parish in north-western Herefordshire, England. The population of this civil parish, including the hamlet of Yatton, at the 2011 Census was 351.[1]
It is located on the A4110 road, about 7 miles north-west of Leominster and 8 miles south-west of the historic market town of Ludlow, in south Shropshire. The village is on the River Lugg.
Aymestrey is home to several homes and cottages,[2] the church dedicated to St John the Baptist and St Alkmund,[3] [4] a village hall[5] and a pub or Inn: The Riverside Inn,[6] situated next to River Lugg[7] just off the main road.
The Mortimer Trail[8] waymarked recreational walk passes through the village.
In 1987, the Aymestrey burial, an Early Bronze Age, beaker cist, was discovered during gravel working.[9] It has since been recreated at Leominster Museum.
Aymestrey is featured in the supernatural crime novel Foxglove Summer by Ben Aaronovitch, where it is described as being "less a village than a diorama of the last six hundred years of English vernacular architecture stretched along either side of the road.”