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Besford

Besford is a village and civil parish in the Wychavon district of Worcestershire, England.

The place

Besford is a village and civil parish in the Wychavon district of Worcestershire, England. According to the 2021 census it had a population of 258. The village is near Pershore, off the road from Upton-upon-Severn. A historic house, Besford Court, is located in the village. Besford Court was once used as a school known as Besford Court Hospital.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Besford

7 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Croome Court

    Croome Court is a mid-18th-century Neo-Palladian mansion surrounded by extensive landscaped parkland at Croome D'Abitot, near Upton-upon-Severn in south Worcestershire, England. The mansion and park were designed by Lancelot "Capability" Brown for George Coventry, 6th Earl of Coventry, and they were Brown's first landscape design and first major architectural project.

    2.6 km · Grade I listed historic house museum in Malvern Hills, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Pershore Abbey

    Pershore Abbey, at Pershore in Worcestershire, was a Benedictine abbey with Anglo-Saxon origins until the reformation. The remaining part of the abbey church is now a Church of England parish church, the Church of the Holy Cross.

    3.8 km · church in Pershore, Worcestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    St Mary Magdalene's Church, Croome D'Abitot

    St Mary Magdalene's Church is a former Anglican church in the grounds of Croome Court, at Croome D'Abitot, Worcestershire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building, and is under the care of The Churches Conservation Trust.

    2.4 km · church in Croome D'Abitot, Worcestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Pershore Town Hall

    Pershore Town Hall is a municipal building in the High Street in Pershore, a town in Worcestershire, in England. Originally commissioned as a post office, it is now the headquarters of Pershore Town Council.

    3.9 km · municipal building in England · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Pershore Civic Centre

    Pershore Civic Centre is a municipal building in Queen Elizabeth Drive in Pershore, a town in Worcestershire, in England. The building accommodates the offices and meeting place of Wychavon District Council.

    3.9 km · municipal building in England · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    37, High Street

    The Old Council Offices, also known as No. 37 High Street, is a former municipal building in the High Street in Pershore, a town in Worcestershire, in England.

    4 km · building in Pershore, Worcestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Eckington Bridge

    Eckington Bridge is a stone bridge over the River Avon in Eckington in the English county of Worcestershire. It is a Grade II* listed building and has been scheduled as an ancient monument.

    2.8 km · bridge in Wychavon, Worcestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Besford

Airports
Birmingham (BHX), 47 km · Bristol (BRS), 90 km · East Midlands (EMA), 98 km
Stations
Eckington railway station, 3.8 km
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Besford
    45 km · quickest by road, 1h 17m · £5–7
  • Bristol → Besford
    79 km · quickest by road, 1h 47m · £8–11
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Besford
    116 km · quickest by road, 2h 34m · £13–17
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Besford

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Besford. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    167 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    203 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    434 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    470 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    493 km

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Around it

Next door to Besford

Besford is 45 km from Birmingham, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Pershoretown in Wychavon, Worcestershire, England, UK3.8 km
  • Wychavonlocal government district in Worcestershire, England3.7 km
  • Eckingtonvillage and civil parish in Worcestershire, UK3.5 km
  • Croome D'Abitotvillage and civil parish in Worcestershire, UK2.8 km
  • Deffordvillage in Worcestershire, England, UK1.8 km
  • Birlinghamvillage in Worcestershire, England, UK3 km