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Worcester District

Worcester

Worcester is an historic cathedral city on the river Severn. Worcester is the county town of .
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  • Type: City with 94,000 residents
  • Description: city and the county town of Worcestershire, England
  • Also known as: “City of Worcester” and “Worcester, England”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Worcester Cathedral and Worcester Shrub Hill Railway Station.

Church
Photo: SimonWiseman, CC0.
, formally the Cathedral Church of Christ and Blessed Mary the Virgin, is a Church of England cathedral in Worcester, England. The cathedral is the seat of the bishop of Worcester and is the mother church of the diocese of Worcester; it is administered by its dean and chapter.

Railway station
Photo: Chris Allen, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Worcester Shrub Hill is one of two railway stations serving the city of Worcester, England; the other is in the city centre. A third, , is located just outside the city to the south-east.

Railway station
Photo: Jonathan Billinger, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Worcester Foregate Street, opened by the Great Western Railway in 1860, is one of two railway stations that serve the city of Worcester, England; the other is , which is located to the east.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include St John’s and Rushwick.

Suburb
Photo: Philip Halling, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St John's is a western suburb of Worcester in , England, lying west of the city centre and the . St. John's is referred to locally as the "Village in the City", which is partly due to being an independent township, before joining the city in 1837.

Village
Photo: Philip Halling, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a village and civil parish in the Malvern Hills District in the county of , England. It is situated to the west of Worcester, Parish comprises the four villages and hamlets of Broadmore Green, Crown East, village and .

Hamlet
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is a small village near Worcester close to Junction 7 of the M5 motorway, bounded by the motorway and the B4084, in the District of Wychavon. The motorway cuts through the village, with the majority of the village lying on the western side.

Worcester

Latitude
52.1912° or 52° 11′ 28″ north
Longitude
-2.2207° or 2° 13′ 14″ west
Population
94,000
Elevation
95 feet (29 metres)
IATA airport code
UWC
United Nations Location Code
GB WTR
Open location code
9C4V5QRH+FP
Open­Street­Map ID
node 20971097
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2633563
Wiki­data ID
Q1646181
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Worcester” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Worcester, Engeland”
  • Albanian: “Worcester”
  • Arabic: “Worcester”
  • Arabic: “ورسستر”
  • Arabic: “وستر”
  • Arabic: “ووستر”
  • Aragonese: “Worcester”
  • Armenian: “Worcester”
  • Armenian: “Վուսթեր”
  • Asturian: “Worcester”
  • Azerbaijani: “Vuster”
  • Basque: “Worcester”
  • Belarusian: “Worcester”
  • Belarusian: “Вустэр”
  • Belarusian: “Ўустэр”
  • Bengali: “ওরচেস্টার”
  • Breton: “Worcester”
  • Bulgarian: “Worcester”
  • Bulgarian: “Устър”
  • Catalan: “Worcester”
  • Cebuano: “Worcester (kapital sa kondado sa Hiniusang Gingharian)”
  • Cebuano: “Worcester”
  • Chinese: “Worcester”
  • Chinese: “伍斯特”
  • Chinese: “窝士打”
  • Chinese: “窩士打”
  • Czech: “Worcester”
  • Danish: “Worcester”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Worcester”
  • Dutch: “Worcester”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ورسستر”
  • Esperanto: “Worcester”
  • Estonian: “Worcester”
  • Finnish: “Worcester”
  • French: “Worcester”
  • Georgian: “ვუსტერი”
  • German: “Worcester”
  • Greek: “Worcester”
  • Greek: “Γουόρσεστερ”
  • Greek: “Γουόρτσεστερ”
  • Greek: “Γούστερ”
  • Greek: “Ουόρσεστερ”
  • Greek: “Ουόρτσεστερ”
  • Gujarati: “વર્સેસ્ટર”
  • Hebrew: “ווסטר, אנגליה”
  • Hebrew: “ווסטר”
  • Hebrew: “וורסשטייר”
  • Hindi: “वर्सेस्टर”
  • Hindi: “वॉर्सेस्टर, इंग्लैंड”
  • Hungarian: “Worcester”
  • Icelandic: “Worcester”
  • Indonesian: “Worcester, Inggris”
  • Indonesian: “Worcester”
  • Irish: “Worcester”
  • Italian: “Worcester”
  • Japanese: “ウースター・”
  • Japanese: “ウスター”
  • Kannada: “ವರ್ಚೆಸ್ಟರ್”
  • Kazakh: “Worcester”
  • Kazakh: “Вустер”
  • Korean: “Worcester”
  • Korean: “우스터”
  • Kurdish: “Worcester”
  • Ladin: “Worcester”
  • Latin: “Vigornia”
  • Latin: “Wirgornia”
  • Latvian: “Vustera”
  • Lithuanian: “Vusteris”
  • Lithuanian: “Worcester”
  • Lombard: “Worcester”
  • Luxembourgish: “Worcester”
  • Macedonian: “Вустер”
  • Malagasy: “Worcester”
  • Malay: “Worcester”
  • Marathi: “वुस्टर”
  • Marathi: “वूस्टर”
  • Mazanderani: “Worcester”
  • Mazanderani: “ورکستر”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Worcester (Eng-lân)”
  • Narom: “Virechêtre”
  • Northern Frisian: “Worcester”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Worcester”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Worcester”
  • Norwegian: “Worcester”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Wiogoraceastre”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Worcester”
  • Ossetian: “Вустер”
  • Ossetian: “Вустершир”
  • Persian: “Worcester”
  • Persian: “ووستر”
  • Piemontese: “Worcester”
  • Polish: “Worcester”
  • Portuguese: “Worcester”
  • Quechua: “Worcester”
  • Romanian: “Worcester”
  • Russian: “Вустер”
  • Serbian: “Вустер”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Worcester”
  • Silesian: “Worcester”
  • Sinhala: “වෝසෙස්ටර්”
  • Slovak: “Worcester”
  • Slovenian: “Worcester”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ووستر”
  • Spanish: “Worcester”
  • Swedish: “Worcester, England”
  • Swedish: “Worcester”
  • Tagalog: “Worcester”
  • Tamil: “ஒருசெஸ்டர்”
  • Tamil: “ஓரெஸ்டர்”
  • Tatar: “Вустер (Бөекбритания)”
  • Tatar: “Вустер”
  • Telugu: “వూర్స్టర్”
  • Thai: “วุร์สเตอร์”
  • Tornedalen Finnish: “Worcester”
  • Turkish: “Worcester”
  • Ukrainian: “Worcester”
  • Ukrainian: “Вустер”
  • Urdu: “Worcester”
  • Urdu: “ورسیسٹر، انگلینڈ”
  • Urdu: “ووسٹر”
  • Venetian: “Worcester”
  • Vietnamese: “Worcester”
  • Volapük: “Worcester”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Worcester”
  • Welsh: “Caerwrangon”
  • Welsh: “Worcester”
  • Western Frisian: “Worcester”
  • Western Panjabi: “Worcester”
  • Western Panjabi: “وورسسٹر”
  • Wu Chinese: “伍斯特”
  • Yue Chinese: “Worcester”
  • Yue Chinese: “窩士打”

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