Worcestershire
Worcestershire is a county in the West Midlands in England. It is best known for the Malvern Hills and the cathedral city of Worcester. It is also the starting point of the Severn Valley Railway.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Worcester and Redditch.
Worcester
Worcester is an historic English cathedral city on the river Severn. Worcester is the county town of Worcestershire.
Redditch
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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.
Kidderminster
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Kidderminster is a market town and civil parish in Worcestershire, located 20 miles south-west of Birmingham and 12 miles north of Worcester. Population: 57,400…
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Evesham and Malvern.
Evesham
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Evesham is a market town of 28,000 people in Worcestershire that is roughly equidistant from Worcester, Cheltenham & Stratford-upon-Avon and in the Vale of Evesham.
Malvern
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Malvern is a spa town in Worcestershire. It has been famous for its bottled water since 1622. The town was the chosen location for the British government in case of evacuation from London during World War II.
Bromsgrove
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Bromsgrove is a dormitory town in Worcestershire. Bromsgrove is not much of a tourist destination, but it hosts a well regarded annual music festival.
Stourport-on-Severn
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Stourport-on-Severn is a town of 20,000 people in Worcestershire. In the area close to Stourport there are several large manor and country houses, among which Witley Court, Astley Hall, Pool House, Areley Hall, Hartlebury and Abberley Hall are particularly significant.
Bewdley
Bewdley is a market town in the Wyre Forest District in Worcestershire, on the banks of the River Severn near Kidderminster. Bewdley is a popular tourist destination and is known for the Bewdley Bridge, designed by Thomas Telford, and the well preserved Georgian riverside.
Pershore
Pershore is a market town and civil parish in the Wychavon district in Worcestershire, England, on the banks of the River Avon. At the 2011 census, the population was 7,125.
Droitwich
Droitwich Spa is an historic spa town in the Wychavon district in northern Worcestershire, England, on the River Salwarpe. It is located approximately 22 miles south-west of Birmingham and 7 miles north-east of Worcester.
Upton-upon-Severn
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Upton-upon-Severn is a small town and civil parish in the Malvern Hills District of Worcestershire, England, on the River Severn.
Broadway
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Broadway is a well-known and much-visited Cotswolds village in the English county of Worcestershire. Often referred to as the "Jewel of the Cotswolds" and the "Show Village of England" because of its archetypal rural beauty, the 'Broad Way' leads from the…
Hagley
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Hagley is a village and civil parish in Worcestershire, England. It is on the boundary of the West Midlands and Worcestershire counties between the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley and Kidderminster. Its estimated population was 7,162 in 2019.
Worcestershire
- Type: Region with 580,000 residents
- Description: non-metropolitan county in the West Midlands of England
- Also known as: “Ceremonial County Worcestershire”, “Wigorn”, and “Worcs”
- Neighbors: Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire, and West Midlands
- Categories: non-metropolitan county and ceremonial county of England
- Location: West Midlands, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Worcestershire” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Worcestershire”
- Arabic: “ورسيسترشير”
- Arabic: “ورشستر”
- Arabic: “وسترشر”
- Armenian: “Վուսթերշիր”
- Armenian: “Վուստերշիր”
- Asturian: “Worcestershire”
- Azerbaijani: “Vusterşir”
- Balinese: “Worcestershire”
- Basque: “Worcestershire”
- Belarusian: “Вустэршыр”
- Belarusian: “графства Вустэршыр”
- Belarusian: “Ўустэршыр”
- Bengali: “ওরচেস্টারশায়ার”
- Breton: “Worcestershire”
- Bulgarian: “Устършър”
- Catalan: “Worcestershire”
- Cebuano: “Worcestershire”
- Chinese: “Worcestershire”
- Chinese: “伍斯特郡”
- Chinese: “窝士打郡”
- Chinese: “窩士打郡”
- Cornish: “Worcestershire”
- Czech: “Worcestershire”
- Danish: “Worcestershire”
- Dutch: “Worcestershire”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ورسيستيرشاير”
- Esperanto: “Worcestershire”
- Estonian: “Worcestershire”
- Finnish: “Worcestershire”
- French: “Worcestershire”
- German: “Worcestershire”
- Greek: “Γούστερσιρ”
- Gujarati: “વોર્કેસ્ટરશાયર”
- Hebrew: “ווסטרשייר”
- Hindi: “वॉस्टरशायर”
- Hungarian: “Worcestershire”
- Icelandic: “Worcestershire”
- Ido: “Worcestershire”
- Indonesian: “Worcestershire”
- Interlingua: “Worcestershire”
- Irish: “Worcestershire”
- Italian: “Worcestershire”
- Japanese: “ウスターシャー”
- Kannada: “ವರ್ಸೆಸ್ಟರ್ಶೈರ್”
- Korean: “우스터셔주”
- Kurdish: “Worcestershire”
- Ladin: “Worcestershire”
- Latin: “Vigorniensis comitatus”
- Latvian: “Vusteršīra”
- Lithuanian: “Vusteršyras”
- Luxembourgish: “Worcestershire”
- Macedonian: “Вустершир”
- Manx: “Worcestershire”
- Marathi: “वूस्टरशायर”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Worcestershire”
- Northern Frisian: “Worcestershire”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Worcestershire”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Worcestershire”
- Norwegian: “Worcestershire”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Worcestershire”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Weogornaċeastresċīr”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Wigreceastrescīr”
- Ossetian: “Вустершир”
- Persian: “ووسترشایر”
- Persian: “ووسترشر”
- Polish: “Worcestershire”
- Portuguese: “Worcestershire”
- Romanian: “Worcestershire”
- Russian: “Вустершир”
- Scots: “Worcestershire”
- Serbian: “Вустершир”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Worcestershire”
- Sicilian: “Worcestershire”
- Slovak: “Worcestershire”
- Slovenian: “Worcestershire”
- Spanish: “Worcestershire”
- Swedish: “Worcestershire”
- Tajik: “Уорсестершир”
- Tamil: “ஒரஸ்ஸ்டேர்ஷிர்”
- Tatar: “Вустершир”
- Telugu: “వోర్సెస్టర్షైర్”
- Thai: “วุร์สเตอร์เชอร์”
- Thai: “วุร์สเตอร์เชียร์”
- Turkish: “Törensel Worcestershire Kontluğu”
- Turkish: “Worcestershire”
- Ukrainian: “Вустершир”
- Urdu: “ووسٹرشائر”
- Venetian: “contea de Worcester”
- Vietnamese: “Worcestershire”
- Volapük: “Worcestershire”
- Waray (Philippines): “Worcestershire”
- Welsh: “Swydd Gaerwrangon”
- Western Frisian: “Worcestershire”
- Western Panjabi: “وورسسٹرشائر”
- Wu Chinese: “伍斯特郡”
- Yiddish: “וואוסטערשיר”
- Yue Chinese: “窩士打郡”
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