Bordesley
Bordesley is a village north of Redditch, in Worcestershire, England. Bordesley primarily comprises houses alongside the A441 Birmingham Road between Redditch and Alvechurch.Photo: John G Hill, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Village
- Description: village in Worcestershire, UK
- Also known as: “Bordesley, Worcestershire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Bordesley Abbey and Forge Mill Needle Museum.
Bordesley Abbey
Archaeological site
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Bordesley Abbey was a 12th-century Cistercian abbey near the town of Redditch, in Worcestershire, England. The abbey's foundation was an act of Waleran de Beaumont, Count of Meulan, who gave the monks of Garendon Abbey in Leicestershire some more land.
Forge Mill Needle Museum
Museum
Photo: Colin Babb, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Forge Mill Needle Museum in Redditch, Worcestershire, is a historic museum depicting Redditch's Industrial Heritage. Opened in 1983 by Queen Elizabeth II, it records how in Victorian times, Redditch was the international centre of the needle and fishing tackle industry and once produced 90% of the world's needles.
Heart of Worcestershire College
College
Heart of Worcestershire College is an academic institution with campuses at Worcester, Malvern, Redditch and Bromsgrove. It was established in August 2014 on the merging of Worcester College of Technology and North East Worcestershire College.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Rowney Green and Redditch.
Rowney Green
Village
Photo: David Stowell, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Rowney Green is a village in the Bromsgrove District of Worcestershire. Today the village consists of over one hundred homes, a village hall, a chapel, several horse riding stables and a couple of farms.
Redditch
Photo: Stub Mandrel, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Redditch is a town and non-metropolitan district with borough status in Worcestershire, England. In 2021, the town had a population of 81,637 and the district had a population of 87,037.
Beoley
Hamlet
Photo: Martin Wilson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Beoley is a small village and larger civil parish north of Redditch in the Bromsgrove District of Worcestershire. It adjoins Warwickshire to the east. The 2021 census gave a parish population of 984, mostly at Holt End. Beoley is situated 1½ miles east of Bordesley.
Bordesley
- Category: locality
- Location: Alvechurch, Bromsgrove District, Worcestershire, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.32629° or 52° 19′ 35″ northLongitude
-1.94368° or 1° 56′ 37″ westElevation
358 feet (109 metres)Open location code
9C4W83G4+GGOpenStreetMap ID
node 8446575817OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Polish—“Bordesley” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Bordesley, Worcestershire”
- French: “Bordesley”
- Irish: “Bordesley”
- Latin: “Bordeslega”
- Polish: “Bordesley (Worcestershire)”
- Polish: “Bordesley”
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