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Worcestershire (/ˈwʊstərʃər/ ^ⓘ WUUST-ər-shər, /-ʃɪər/ -⁠sheer; written abbreviation: Worcs) is a ceremonial county in the West MidlandsofEngland. It is bordered by Shropshire, Staffordshire, and the West Midlands county to the north, Warwickshire to the east, Gloucestershire to the south, and Herefordshire to the west. The city of Worcester is the largest settlement and the county town.

The county is largely rural, and has an area of 1,741 km² (672 sq mi) and a population of 592,057. After Worcester (103,872) the largest settlements are Redditch (87,036), Kidderminster (57,400), and Malvern (30,462). It contains six local government districts, which are part of a two-tier non-metropolitan county also called Worcestershire. The county historically had complex boundaries, and included Dudley and the southwestern suburbs of Birmingham.

The River Severn flows through the centre of the county from north to south, forming a wide plain. The southwest of the county contains part of the Malvern Hills, a National Landscape which contains Worcestershire Beacon, at 425 m (1,394 ft) the county's highest point. The southwest contains a small part of the Cotswolds, and in the northwest is part of the Wyre Forest, a national nature reserve.

There is some evidence of Roman occupation in Worcestershire; the area later became part of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Hwicce, and then Mercia. Worcestershire was constituted as a county around 927, as the Kingdom of England formed. During the High Middle Ages the county was the site of the Battle of Evesham, in which Simon de Montfort was defeated, and in 1651 the Battle of Worcester was the last major engagement of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. During the Industrial Revolution the north of the county was part of the Black Country, a major manufacturing centre, Kidderminster became famous for carpet production, and Worcester for porcelain. (Full article...)

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  Image 1Roosevelt plaque, Aldwyn Tower, Malvern (from Malvern, Worcestershire)
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  Image 2Bewdley Bridge (from Bewdley)
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  Image 3Oswald and Eadnoth (from History of Worcestershire)
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  Image 4Stourport Road Bridge (from Stourport-on-Severn)
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  Image 5The coat of arms of Worcestershire County Council (from Worcestershire)
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  Image 6All Saints Church Evesham (from Evesham)
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  Image 7Evesham Abbey bell tower (from Evesham)
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  Image 8Worcester Square (from Redditch)
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  Image 9Detail of buildings and shops in Church Street, Great Malvern (from Malvern, Worcestershire)
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  Image 10Malvern post office, town centre
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  Image 11Hanbury Hall, completed around 1706 (from History of Worcestershire)
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  Image 12The Enigma Fountain and statue of Edward Elgar, a group of sculptures by artist Rose Garrard, on Belle Vue Terrace (from Malvern, Worcestershire)
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  Image 13Caldwall Castle (from Kidderminster)
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  Image 14Classical composer Sir Edward Elgar was born in this house in Broadheath, Worcestershire, currently used as the Elgar Birthplace Museum. (from Worcestershire)
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  Image 15The North West View of the City of Worcester (from History of Worcestershire)
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  Image 16Bewdley Station, now restored as part of the Severn Valley Railway (from Bewdley)
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  Image 17The Market Place in Evesham, circa 1904 by Edmund Hort New. (from Evesham)
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  Image 18William Lloyd (from History of Worcestershire)
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  Image 19Honeybourne railway station on the Cotswold Line and the potential Honeybourne Line (from Worcestershire)
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  Image 20Parish church of St John the Baptist (from Bromsgrove)
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  Image 21St John's Court: 19th century vicarage, served as council offices from 1920s to 1980s, now a care home. (from Bromsgrove)
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  Image 22Priory Park with Malvern Theatres complex and Priory Church tower in the background (from Malvern, Worcestershire)
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  Image 23Iron Age earthworks, British Camp
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  Image 24Evesham Town Hall (from Evesham)
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  Image 25Grave of Sir Thomas Chavasse (1854–1913) and his family in Bromsgrove (from Bromsgrove)
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  Image 26The 1906 sandstone and red brick Evesham Methodist Church on the banks of the River Avon (from Evesham)
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  Image 27John's tomb, Worcester Cathedral (from History of Worcestershire)
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  Image 28Interior of a Bromsgrove Nailmaker's shed in 1896; occupied by the tenant and two stallers, the latter worked each on his own account, and paid 6d. a week apiece and one-third of the firing. The oliver, or heavy hammer used for heading the nails, is attached to the bench in front of the little anvil. (from Bromsgrove)
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  Image 29Victorian pillar box on the corner of Priory Road and Orchard Road
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  Image 30Map of Stourport, 1942 (from Stourport-on-Severn)
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  Image 31Nailmakers in Bromsgrove c.1896 (from History of Worcestershire)
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  Image 32Prior's Croft, Grange Road (Victorian Gothic architecture)
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  Image 33The Lickey Incline in 1840 (from Bromsgrove)
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  Image 34The Battle of Powick Bridge on the River Teme on 23 September 1642 began the English Civil War. (from Worcestershire)
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  Image 35Graves of railway engineers Tom Scaife and Joseph Rutherford, killed in an engine explosion in Bromsgrove in 1840 (from Bromsgrove)
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  Image 36Broadway Tower, one of several Worcestershire follies (from Worcestershire)
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  Image 37Battle of Worcester (from History of Worcestershire)
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  Image 38St John the Baptist's Church (Church of England), built in 1843 (from Kidderminster)
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  Image 39Stafford tomb, St John the Baptist Church, Bromsgrove: one of the most powerful families in Worcestershire, living just south of the town (from Bromsgrove)
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  Image 40Tithe barn of St Johns, Bromsgrove, shortly before it was sold and demolished in 1844. It was used as a theatre in the 1700s. (from Bromsgrove)
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  Image 41Brintons carpet factory in Kidderminster, c. 1870 (from Kidderminster)
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  Image 42Nailmakers in Bromsgrove c.1896 (from Bromsgrove)
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  Image 43Aggborough is the home ground of the professional club Kidderminster Harriers, formerly of the Football League. (from Kidderminster)
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  Image 44Iron Age earthworks, British Camp
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  Image 45The flag of the historic county of Worcestershire (from Worcestershire)
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  Image 46The former Slingfield Mill (from Kidderminster)
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  Image 47James McConnell (from Bromsgrove)
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  Image 48Summit of the Worcestershire Beacon in the Malvern Hills, the county's highest point (from Worcestershire)
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  Image 49The Malvhina Fountain in the town centre, a sculpture by artist Rose Garrard. (from Malvern, Worcestershire)
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  Image 50St Stephen's Church (Church of England) (from Redditch)
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  Image 51New Road is the home of Worcestershire County Cricket Club, across the River Severn from Worcester Cathedral. (from Worcestershire)
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  Image 52Coat of Arms of the former Bromsgrove Rural District Council (from Bromsgrove)
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  Image 53Hand-drawn map of Worcestershire by Christopher Saxton from 1577. (from Worcestershire)
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  Image 54A.E. Housman, poet, lived at Perry Hall, Bromsgrove (from Bromsgrove)
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  Image 55Welcome to Malvern, on an approach road to the town centre. (from Malvern, Worcestershire)
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  Image 56St Ann's Well spout (from Malvern, Worcestershire)
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  Image 57Seven shillings a week: this nailmaker in 1896 worked from 7am to 10pm, and turned out 11lbs of nails a week. (from Bromsgrove)
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  Image 58The former Bromsgrove railway station (from Bromsgrove)
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  Image 59Council wards of Malvern town (from Malvern, Worcestershire)
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  Image 60Lea & Perrins advertisement (1900) (from History of Worcestershire)
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  Image 61Saltworkers by British sculptor John McKenna in the town centre (from Droitwich Spa)
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  Image 62A bottle of Shanghainese "spicy soy sauce", Taikang Yellow brand (from Worcestershire sauce)
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  Image 63Malvern Theatres (from Malvern, Worcestershire)
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  Image 64Bromsgrove Museum (from Bromsgrove)
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  Image 65Dudley Castle (from History of Worcestershire)
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  Image 6615th-century Merchant's House formerly located on Bromsgrove's High Street, now at Avoncroft Museum of Historic Buildings (from Bromsgrove)
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  Image 67Qinetiq at the Malvern Hills Science Park, or Malvern Technology Centre; the integrated circuit was invented here in 1952 (from Worcestershire)
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  Image 68Chateau Impney, near Droitwich (from Droitwich Spa)
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  Image 69The Riverside Shopping Centre (from Evesham)
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  Image 70A statue of Richard Baxter in Kidderminster outside St Mary and All Saints' Church. (from Kidderminster)
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  Image 71Parkside, headquarters of Bromsgrove District Council (from Bromsgrove)
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  Image 72The Almonry, originally part of Evesham Abbey (from Evesham)
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  Image 73Worcester Bosch; Bosch Thermotechnology are in Warndon (from Worcestershire)
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  Image 74The spa town of Great Malvern was laid out and developed largely during the 19th century
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  Image 75Droitwich Spa High Street on St. Richard's Day 2009 (from Droitwich Spa)
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  Image 76The hand axe discovered in 1970s in Hallow. Potentially the first Early Middle Palaeolithic artefact from the West Midlands. (from Worcestershire)
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  Image 77Halesowen was an exclave of neighbouring Shropshire until 1844 when it was reincorporated into Worcestershire. It is now within the metropolitan county of the West Midlands. (from Worcestershire)
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  Image 78Grafton Manor, home of the Catholic Talbot family, holding leading military posts in Worcestershire's Royalist forces in the Civil War (from Bromsgrove)
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  Image 79Great Malvern Priory
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  Image 80St Peter's Church, Droitwich (from Droitwich Spa)
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  Image 81The Lickey Incline about 1845 (from History of Worcestershire)
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  Image 82Astley Hall, Stanley Baldwin's home between 1902 and 1947 (from Stourport-on-Severn)
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  Image 83Richard Baxter, the leading Puritan in Kidderminster, noted the rising opposition to King Charles' policies of taxation and rule without Parliament (from History of Worcestershire)
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  Image 84Sanders Park (from Bromsgrove)
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  Image 85Bromsgrove War Memorial (from Bromsgrove)
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  Image 86Lea & Perrins Worcestershire sauce — the invention of two Worcester chemists (from Worcestershire)
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  Image 87The hand axe discovered in the 1970s in Hallow. Potentially the first Early Middle Palaeolithic artefact from the West Midlands. (from History of Worcestershire)
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  Image 88Thai Gy-Nguang brand Formula 2 Worcestershire sauce (2010) (from Worcestershire sauce)
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  Image 89St Mary's and All Saints Parish Church, seen from the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal (from Kidderminster)
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  Image 90Bewdley Guildhall (from Bewdley)
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  Image 91Landsdown Methodist Church, Great Malvern (from Malvern, Worcestershire)
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  Image 92Malvern St James girls school main building (from Malvern, Worcestershire)
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  Image 93Bewdley from the racks, 2019 (from Bewdley)
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  Image 94View of the QinetiQ facility from the Malvern Hills. Malvern College campus in the foreground, and the village of Poolbrook to the rear
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  Image 95Bewdley and surrounding area (Ordnance Survey) (from Bewdley)
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  Image 96Grave of Mabel Tolkien (née Suffield, 1870–1904), mother of J. R. R. Tolkien, in Bromsgrove (from Bromsgrove)
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  Image 97The Old Town Hall (from Droitwich Spa)
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  Image 98Bewdley Bridge and Severn Side South, 2003 (from Bewdley)
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  Image 99Bromsgrove Guild maker's mark on a main gate of Buckingham Palace (from Bromsgrove)
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  Image 100Droitwich transmitting station, Wychbold (from Droitwich Spa)
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  Image 101Portrait of Sir William Waller, 1643, whose raids thoroughly depleted the Vale of Evesham (from History of Worcestershire)
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  Image 102The former Redditch Bus Station, c. 1996 (from Redditch)
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  Image 103The Abbey Gateway in the town centre is now the home of the Malvern Museum
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  Image 104View across Arrow Valley Lake (from Redditch)
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  Image 105Commemorative pavement plaque in Alcester Street (from Redditch)
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  Image 106Due to its cathedral (pictured), the county town of Worcester is the only settlement in the county with city status. (from Worcestershire)
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  Image 107The art deco Regal Cinema (from Evesham)
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  Image 108Council House (built 1874), viewed from Priory Park, is the headquarters of the District Council. (from Malvern, Worcestershire)

Strensham services is a motorway service station on the M5inWorcestershire, England. It is operated by Roadchef. In August 2011, it was rated as 4 stars (southbound) and 3 stars (northbound) by quality assessors at Visit England.

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