All our contact details (telephone number and address for booking enquiries) are available in our Rhydd Barn Brochure and Booking Form.
Our email address is info [at] rhyddbarn [dot] co [dot] uk.
The official postal address of Rhydd Barn is: Rhydd Farm Barn, The Rhydd, Hanley Castle, Worcester, WR8 0AG. Please do not use this address for booking enquiries! Our correspondence address is in Somerset. It is shown on our Booking Form and Brochure.
Information about this website
Apart from the main ‘home’ page there are seven other pages within this website.
The pictures web page is a gallery of recent photos taken in and around the barn.
The location web page has a location map and a summary of highlights of the local area.
The availability web page features an up to date monthly calendar of weeks already booked.
The booking & prices web page lists the cost of a week’s stay in Rhydd Barn and instructions on how to make a booking enquiry and how to book a visit to the barn.
The reviews page which lists recent comments from our guest book and/or email communications from our visitors.
The downloads web page contains links to pdf documents about Rhydd Barn including an accessibility guide and a summary of our most recent assessment by VisitEngland.
The news web page is a blog where we post occasional news items about the barn. For example, recent improvements we have made.
At the bottom of each page is a list of local interest and other web links for your information.
Technical
This website is powered by WordPress (free software: open source/GPL), which is a relatively easy to use Content Management System (CMS) enabling the creation of websites.
The site is hosted by the excellent Krystal Hosting.
We are always looking to improve this website. Here are the some recent changes we have made:
- We continue to fine-tune the site to, we hope, improve its appearance and readability.
- We modified the website so that it appears in an appropriate format on smaller screens such as tablets and smartphones.
- We recently (August 2020) introduced a quicker to use availability calendar with six-months-at-a-time view.
- We changed the picture gallery viewing function (September 2020) by switching to a a better plugin.
- We increased the size of the text and the spacing between text lines across the whole site to improve legibility.
- We recently (August 2020) switched the hosting of this website to Krystal Hosting, and so far it is a much better web hosting company than our previous one. You should see increased page-loading speeds and a reduction in frustration (mostly for me).
- Also in August 2020, we installed a SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) certificate on the website so that it now loads as https:// (rather than http://) and displays a padlock in the address bar showing it is a secure site. This should also improve our Google search ranking.
- Overhauled the whole site and made some minor layout changes and content additions using the ‘block theme editor’ now available in WordPress (March-April 2024). But much more can be done here.
For those interested in the technical side—and I have had to become very interested in it—we use the following WordPress plugins to add extra functionality (all free of charge!):
- Twenty Twenty-Four WordPress theme (customised).
- VR Calendar Sync [free version] for displaying our bookings calendar.
- Meow Lightbox — a free plugin for displaying multiple images in an attractive format.
- Out of the Block: OpenStreetMap plugin to create and display the location map.
- FluentSnippets — a free plugin to easily add CSS code to WordPress pages.
This website is very happily hosted by Krystal Hosting.
We use the following software locally: