area now known as Worcestershire has had human presence for over half a million years. Interrupted by two ice ages, Worcestershire has had continuous...
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Lea and William Henry Perrins in the city of Worcester in Worcestershire, England, during the first half of the 19th century. The inventors went on to...
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Worcestershire (/ˈwʊstərʃər/ WUUST-ər-shər, /-ʃɪər/ -sheer; written abbreviation: Worcs) is a ceremonial county in the West Midlands of England. It is...
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Worcestershire County Cricket Club is one of eighteen first-class county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales. It represents...
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point in Worcestershire. It is part of the Malvern Hills which run about 13 kilometres (8.1 mi) north-south along the Herefordshire-Worcestershire border...
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of Worcestershire, England. It is bounded by the River Severn on the west, and the A38 main road runs through it and is about 3 miles (5 km) south of...
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Droitwich Spa Lido (category History of Worcestershire)
The Droitwich Spa Lido is a lido in Droitwich Spa, Worcestershire, England. It is one of the few remaining inland, open-air salt-water swimming pools...
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Hereford and Worcester (redirect from History of Hereford and Worcester)
areas of the former administrative county of Herefordshire, most of Worcestershire (except Halesowen, Stourbridge and Warley, which became part of the West...
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Royal Signals and Radar Establishment (category Military history of Worcestershire)
establishment within the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of the United Kingdom. It was located primarily at Malvern in Worcestershire, England. The RSRE motto was...
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Cotswolds, England, with a population of 2,540 at the 2011 census. It is in the far southeast of Worcestershire, close to the Gloucestershire border,...
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The Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment (29th/45th Foot) (abbreviated as WFR) was an infantry regiment of the British Army, part of the Prince...
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1642–1646 and the Scotch invasion of 1651. Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent and Company. "Worcestershire". Worcestershire County Council. Archived from the...
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and teachers of English history. Boston: Ginn & Company. p. 55. Pinches, John Harvey; Pinches, Rosemary (1974). The Royal Heraldry of England. Heraldry...
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the town of Evesham, Worcestershire. With the Battle of Lewes, de Montfort had won control of royal government, but after the defection of several close...
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Norton Barracks (category Military history of Worcestershire)
Norton Barracks is a former military installation in Norton, Worcestershire. The keep is a Grade II listed building. The barracks were built in the Fortress...
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Bromsgrove district of Worcestershire, England, almost contiguous with and to the south of the city of Birmingham. Hollywood was formerly part of Kings Norton...
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OCLC 2859370 History of Warwickshire History of Worcestershire Wikimedia Commons has media related to History of Birmingham. Local history pages – Birmingham...
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parish in Worcestershire, England. It lies at the foot of the Malvern Hills, a designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The centre of Malvern, Great...
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of Worcestershire, England have been fluid for over 150 years since the first major changes in 1844. There were many detached parts of Worcestershire...
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Hwicce (redirect from Rulers of Hwicce)
679–680, the early bishops of which bore the title Episcopus Hwicciorum. The kingdom would therefore have included Worcestershire except the northwestern...
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Tracie Andrews (category History of Worcestershire)
claimed that on the way back to their flat in The Becks, Alvechurch, Worcestershire, late that evening the pair became involved in a road rage incident...
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council shared with Bransford) in the Malvern Hills district of the county of Worcestershire, England. With just a few hundred inhabitants the parish lies...
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covering Worcestershire. The society exists to "promote the study of any aspect of the archaeology and history relating to the historic county of Worcestershire...
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Evesham (redirect from Evesham Worcestershire)
a market town and parish in the Wychavon district of Worcestershire, in the West Midlands region of England. It is located roughly equidistant between...
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The Worcestershire Regiment was a line infantry regiment in the British Army, formed in 1881 under the Childers Reforms by the amalgamation of the 29th...
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Major Mercer, the commander of the Worcestershire horse, played a significant part in the Battle of Worcester in 1651, but although mentioned in primary...
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This is a list of sheriffs and since 1998 high sheriffs of Worcestershire. The Sheriff is the oldest secular office under the Crown. Formerly the Sheriff...
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Michael (2018) 'Top Secret Worcestershire' Brewin Books ISBN 978-1858585819 Gill, Holt (2003) Malvern Voices: WARTIME An Oral History Malvern Museum. ISBN 0-9541520-4-2...
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of Worcestershire, England, forming part of the West Midlands conurbation. It was formed in 1966 by the combination of the existing county borough of...
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Worcestershire was the county where the first battle and last battle of the English Civil War took place. The first battle, the Battle of Powick Bridge...
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