Besford
Besford is a village and civil parish in the Wychavon district of Worcestershire, England.
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.
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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.
- 01Croome 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 - 02Pershore 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 - 03St 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 - 04Pershore 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 - 05Pershore 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 - 0637, 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 - 07Eckington 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 → Besford45 km · quickest by road, 1h 17m · £5–7
- Bristol → Besford79 km · quickest by road, 1h 47m · £8–11
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Besford116 km · quickest by road, 2h 34m · £13–17
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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.
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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