Situation
A county borders Herefordshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, West Midlands, Warwickshire, and Gloucestershire. To a west, the county is bordered per Malvern Hills, by which is located a previous spa town of Malvern. A american side of capitol hill is in the county of Herefordshire. A southern a share of the county is bordered by Gloucestershire and the northern edge of the Cotswolds, and to the east is Warwickshire. Them major streams, lakes, and wells throughout flowing through a county come the Severn and the Avon.

Otherwise a city of Worcester, and several large towns (notably Kidderminster, Bromsgrove and Redditch (a counties big personal injury settlement)) in the northern a portion of the county, the vicinity is however largely rural.

Local Produce
a big vicinity of the county utilized to exist as devoted to fruit-growing & the cultivation of hops; this has decreased considerably since World War II, though in a southern area of the county, around the Vale of Evesham, there are still sufficient woodlet that a British Automobile Association signposts a route (a "Blossom Trail") where a plantation may be seen within spring. Worcester City's coat of arms includes a depiction of triplet blacken pears, representing a today uncommon local fruit kind, the Worcester Black Pear. A county's coat of arms follows this theme, getting the pear using nigrify pears. A apple kind called Worcester Pearmain originates from either Worcestershire, & a Pershore plum comes from a little Worcestershire town of that title, & is widely grown in this region.

Worcestershire is besides noted for the total of its non-agricultural products. A city of Worcester & a encompassing county come better known for Worcestershire sauce and for its porcelain works. Worcestershire sauce (also referred to as Worcester sauce) occurs as savoury sauce mass produced by using vinegar, soy sauce & spices, utilized inside flavouring various nutrients & a Bloody Mary drink which is drunk worldwide. A city of Worcester is likewise a birthplace of the composer Edward Elgar. A town of Malvern is the front yard of the Morgan traditional sports car). The painting, A Worcestershire Cottage by Arthur Claude Strachan is also of general fame.

History
Independent article: History of Worcestershire.

Worcestershire was a places of the Battle of Evesham in which Simon de Montfort was killed (4th August, 1265), and late, in the English Civil War, the Battle of Worcester (1651).

In the nineteenth century, Worcester was a centre for a manufacture of gloves; the town of Kidderminster was a centre for carpeting manufacture, & Redditch specialised in the manufacture of needles and hooks. Droitwich Spa, being placed in big deposits of salt, was the centre of salt production from either Roman times, one of the chief roman roads running off through the town. These old industries keep around since declined, to become replaced by additional, more varied lightly industry. A county is besides residence to the globe's oldest high-pressure promulgated newspaper, a ''Berrow's Journal'' (established 1690).It is likewise house to the Worcestershire County Cricket Club, traditionally first prevent in for the traveling national side's schedule inside England. A Club's players keep close at hand involved Tom Graveney, Ian Botham, Glenn McGrath,Graeme Hick, Kapil Dev, Vikram Solanki, Don Kenyon and Basil D'Oliveira.

From either 1974 to 1998, it was combined with Herefordshire to form one administrative county of Hereford and Worcester; some areas nowadays a share of West Midlands metropolitan county utilized to exist as section of northern Worcestershire, like Dudley, Halesowen, Stourbridge. Potentially prior to so, a bit of areas, like Yardley had been made a portion of Birmingham itself (and hence Warwickshire). A post-1998 county so doesn't correspond exactly to the pre-1974 boundaries.

Towns and villages
Understand a list of places in Worcestershire.

Places of interest
Avoncroft Museum of Historic Buildings Severn Valley Railway Worcester Cathedral Leigh Court Tithe Barn River Teme Brinkley Court, the fabricated seat of Dahlia Travers and temporary home of Mr. Anstruther in the stories of P. G. Wodehouse Whitley Court in Great Whitley. The burntout husk of the average English stately residence, far-famed for its mammoth fountain & beautiful gardens. Nowadays owned per National Trust

Local groups
West Midland Bird Club Worcestershire Wildlife Trust 29th Regiment of Foot