If you want to find out, and influence, what’s happening with the Belmont pools and surrounding land, get along to the Belmont community centre for 6.30pm this Friday, March 19.
A special event is to be held to give local people the chance to find out how they can get involved and influence what will happens at the historic site.
A project to buy the pool and develop the Belmont and Haywood country park is being steered by the South Wye Regeneration Partnership which has organised the meeting, which starts at 6.30pm.
Visitors will be able to hear about the background to the plans and also hear about what the future may hold for the area, which includes the Belmont pools, located on the doorstep of Hereford city and which are an important recreational resource and valuable wildlife habitat.
The pools are a haven for wildlife and important for many water birds such as swan, heron, various species of ducks, moorhens and other waders which inhabit or visit the pools as well as the wealth of other wildlife that the water supports.
The two pools are located next to the A465 south west of Hereford, near to Belmont Abbey and adjacent to Newton Coppice.
Not too much is known about their history - many people assume they were created as fishing pools for Belmont Abbey, however the pools appear on the maps of 1839, pre-dating the Abbey, which was not built until 1854.
In more recent history they have been fishing pools for Bulmers and have also been in private ownership.