Pershore
Pershore is a market town and civil parish in the Wychavon district, in Worcestershire, England. It lies on the banks of the river Avon and in the Vale of Evesham, 6 miles west of Evesham and 10 miles east of Worcester.Photo: Philip Halling, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Town with 7,000 residents
- Description: town in Wychavon, Worcestershire, England, UK
- Also known as: “Pershore, Worcestershire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Pershore Abbey and Number 8.
Pershore Abbey
Church
Photo: Philip Pankhurst, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Pershore Abbey, at Pershore in Worcestershire, was a Benedictine abbey with Anglo-Saxon origins until the reformation. The remaining part of the abbey church is now a Church of England parish church, the Church of the Holy Cross.
Number 8
Arts center
Number 8 is a community arts centre in the English town of Pershore. It includes a 250-seat auditorium used for music, theatre and cinema events, a small dance and rehearsal space, conference facilities, a gallery, café and bar.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Wyre Piddle and Wick.
Wyre Piddle
Village
Photo: Terry Robinson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Wyre Piddle is a village and civil parish in the Wychavon district of Worcestershire, England. At the 2021 census, it had a population of 614. It is on the River Avon, near where that river is joined by the Piddle Brook - between Evesham and Pershore.
Wick
Village
Photo: Philip Halling, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Wick is a village in the district of Wychavon in the county of Worcestershire, England. It is two miles from the town of Pershore in the Vale of Evesham, and in a large bend in the River Avon.
Drakes Broughton
Village
Photo: Philip Halling, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Drakes Broughton is a village in Worcestershire, England. The village is located on the B4084 road 2 miles north-west of Pershore and 7 miles south-east of Worcester. Drakes Broughton is situated 2 miles northwest of Pershore.
Pershore
- Categories: civil parish, market town, and locality
- Location: Wychavon District, Worcestershire, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
52.1097° or 52° 6′ 35″ northLongitude
-2.0755° or 2° 4′ 32″ westPopulation
7,000Elevation
72 feet (22 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB PSHOpen location code
9C4V4W5F+VROpenStreetMap ID
node 190276582OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Welsh—“Pershore” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Pershore”
- Basque: “Pershore”
- Bengali: “পাশোর”
- Cebuano: “Pershore”
- Chinese: “Pershore”
- Chinese: “波休尔”
- Chinese: “波休爾”
- Chinese: “珀肖爾”
- Czech: “Pershore”
- Dutch: “Pershore”
- French: “Pershore”
- Galician: “Pershore”
- German: “Pershore”
- Gujarati: “પર્શૉર”
- Irish: “Pershore”
- Italian: “Pershore”
- Japanese: “パーショー”
- Japanese: “パーショア”
- Kannada: “ಪರ್ಶೋರ್”
- Korean: “퍼쇼어”
- Ladin: “Pershore”
- Latin: “Perscora”
- Lithuanian: “Peršorė”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Pershore”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Pershore”
- Persian: “پرشور”
- Polish: “Pershore”
- Portuguese: “Pershore”
- Romanian: “Pershore”
- Russian: “Першор”
- South Azerbaijani: “پرشور”
- Spanish: “Pershore”
- Swedish: “Pershore”
- Tamil: “பேரஷோர்”
- Telugu: “పెర్ షోర్”
- Turkish: “Pershore”
- Ukrainian: “Першор”
- Urdu: “پرشوری”
- Urdu: “پرشورے”
- Volapük: “Pershore”
- Welsh: “Pershore”
- “Pershore”
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