Symonds Yat Rock Lodge

31/08/2024

A lovely comment by a guest from London about our Forest of Dean.
(That’s me at the Sculpture Trail in the pic).


https://www.rocklodge.co.uk/fluid-thingstodo.html

14/08/2024

Live Music in a pub on the Wye - what could be better?!

Coming up on Thursday the 22nd of August, we've got some southern country and rock n' roll from the most excellent Mojo River!

13/08/2024

Gorgeous walk from Rock Lodge through the Forest to Saracens Head on the River Wye today with friends. We thoroughly exhausted the hounds, but revived ourselves with a few Wye Valley beers before the walk up past the S*x Education house. An afternoon well spent! ̇on

12/08/2024

Apples are ready in the guests’ garden, and crumble is ready for the oven. The Charles Ross (an early Victorian cross of orange pippin with peasgood nonsuch - how good a name is that!?!) is an early fruiting traditional British apple and the tree is covered in fruit, so guests - please do help yourself (and it tastes great - slightly sharp and very firm).

08/08/2024

LAST MINUTE AVAILABILITY!

Friday 9th August! Pottery Trial Class! 10.30AM - 1PM.

Unfortunately a private party that had booked our studio on Friday has had to cancel BUT that does mean we now have availability on our Pottery Trial Class.

£50 pp for 2.5 hours including refreshments, materials, teaching, glazing and firing (leaving up to 3 pieces each with us for glazing and firing).

Age 6 and above (mini version of class possible for under 5's - £30 - contact us directly to organise this)

Delivery (if required) £20 to one UK mainland address - shared cost if you are a group.

More information on our pottery trial classes at: https://hotpotpottery.co.uk/pottery-trial-classes/

Booking at: https://bookwhen.com/hotpotpottery

The Forest of Dean and Wye Valley

05/08/2024

So true, the Forest of Dean feels relaxed and tranquil compared to the Cotswolds, and who wants to do that trek down to Cornwall for their break?

I love pretty market towns with historic buildings, meandering rivers, boutique shops, and cosy pubs, but unfortunately, so do many other people

26/07/2024

A lovely walk from our place to the famous Symonds Yat Views this morning. With a happy dog and well deserved ice cream.

23/07/2024

Think your cider pressing was the best? Enter the competition -

There's still time to get your entries in for our cider and perry competition at Yew Tree Peterstow this Saturday 27th July! Simply go to our website to fill out your entry form and email it back to us, and then get your entries delivered/dropped off a the Yew Tree ASAP. We are very proud of our annual competition, there are no monetary fees to enter - all we ask is that you donate 5L of cider or perry per category that you enter. This cider and perry is used for tasting at the peer-judged competition, with the remainder sold at our pub over the weekend, with all proceeds from the competition cider and perry going to charity. What's not to love? ❤️

To make the most money that we can for charity, we need our lovely friends and customers to come out to the Yew Tree THIS WEEKEND to buy the cider and perry competition entries!!! As usual, all the cider and perry will be laid out in our event room for you to browse, taste, drink in and/or take away. Come and make a day of it on Saturday 27th July, with music at 5PM and wood-fired food from Firebird Kitchen served all day long.

See you there!

Visit Herefordshire

22/07/2024

We are in the land of the hedgehog! Archenfield is an ancient borderland of Wye and Monnow, Ross and Monmouth. The country name for hedgehog - urchin - comes from that place-name. You will find hedgehogs all over the place - in coats of arms, in carvings in Ross church. And local boy Dylan recently won a Points of Light award from the PM for his work to save hedgehogs.
Hedgehog Fayre coming to Ross on Wye Saturday 3 August.

16/07/2024

Closes Friday 30 August

10/07/2024

Weather forecast looking good! Come and enjoy the view

17/06/2024

How cool is this? Fresh berries picked daily and in a vending machine just off the Symonds Yat / A40 roundabout from

16/06/2024

How stunning is our Wye Valley?!

Wow, what a fantastic photo of the Wye Valley shrouded by Dragon's Breath. You can really see how much the River Wye meanders by following the clouds.

The image is taken from roughly above the Devil's Pulpit over Tintern, looking north. So England is on the right of the clouds and Wales on the left, with Brockweir approximately halfway up in the image and Llandogo in the distance (under the cloud).

Thanks to for this photo posted last week.

16/06/2024

Exciting News! 📣

Summer Fair 2024, you can enjoy The Fair, Museum, Gruffalo Trail & Craft Hut for FREE! 🌲

All tickets are free, but if you can please donate when you visit it would be greatly appreciated, as we are a charity and it will continue to allow us to do more events like this in the future! ❤️

30/05/2024

Star gazing - just a stroll through the forest to our famous viewpoint, which photographers love for the night sky as there is no light pollution and a vast panorama. Come and try it!

With acres of ancient forest and a vast wild river valley, the Forest of Dean and Wye Valley is an ideal area for stargazing. Our dark skies have low levels of light pollution and are easily accessibl..

29/05/2024

Puzzlewood is a Forest of Dean must see. Just listed as one of Time Out’s most beautiful places.

19/05/2024

Puzzlewood is currently closed for filming. Local goss. is that it is for The Witcher. Am really hoping to bump into Chris Hemsworth!

06/05/2024

Crafty Forest breaks - How about a short break filled with relaxing Forest walks, pub dinners and creativity with lovely people. Katie’s fabulous new pottery studio is now open and is a lovely walk or very short drive away. Anna offers printing from her studio with amazing views over the Wye Valley and your challenge can be as simple as Indian wood block printing a tea towel or elevate to your own limited edition print. With Rachel you can make almost anything from mosaic Symonds Yat Rock Lodge gives the flexibility to book your stays when you want them so you can fit it all in!

04/05/2024

Such great images! Happy May 4th all.

01/05/2024

Live Irish musuc in Monmouth sound tempting?

Fancy a little mid week music at the same time helping us here to raise some money for British Heart Foundation? Then join us next Weds 8th May from 7.00pm....

30/04/2024

Spring is happening. And it may be wet, but there is also sun and rainbows and bluebells.

28/04/2024

Have you heard of Dormouse Ladders? Newly installed in the Forest of Dean to keep the cute creatures safe. The BBC covered the story: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-68788690.

16/04/2024

How great to have our gorgeous area recognised as well worth visiting without the car. Must try out The Robin bus!

Trains, buses, cycle routes and footpaths lead to magical scenery and magnificent wildlife in a landscape steeped in history

16/04/2024

Bluebells AND caterpillars - spring really is here! I think it is a drinker moth caterpillar, what do you think? Are you going out in the countryside to make the most of it this weekend? We are surrounded by fields full of lambs and beech forest at Symonds Yat Rock Lodge - come and visit.

05/04/2024

Hooray! We are Airbnb Superhosts again! Thank you to all our guests for their lovely reviews.

14/03/2024

Our special offer is still running. Come for a relax and refresh in the Wye Valley with our glorious views, Forest walks and great places to eat and things to do. . Www.symondsyatrocklodge.co.uk

14/03/2024

Our special offer is still running. Come for a relax and refresh in the Wye Valley with our glorious views, Forest walks and great places to eat and things to do. . . Www.symondsyatrocklodge.co.uk

06/03/2024

Big chopping session finished - Darren was knife-wielding as well - and marmalade is ready for the Easter guests. Get your breakfast condiment from the honesty basket in the Laundry and enjoy!

26/02/2024

A beautiful walk at the weekend above Redbrook that took in two pubs (The Boat at Redbrook and, newly reopened, The Ostrich at Newland) as well as a lot of wildlife including wonderful woolly beasties.