Pershore
Pershore is a market town and civil parish in the Wychavon district, in Worcestershire, England.

Pershore is a market town and civil parish in the Wychavon district, in Worcestershire, England. It lies on the banks of the river Avon and in the Vale of Evesham, 6 miles (10 km) west of Evesham and 10 miles (16 km) east of Worcester. At the 2011 census, the population was 7,125. The town is best known for Pershore Abbey.
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Worth seeing in and around Pershore
6 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.
- 01Pershore 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.
400 m · church in Pershore, Worcestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Pershore 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.
400 m · municipal building in England · Wikipedia - 03Cropthorne New Inn Section
Cropthorne New Inn Section is a 0.12-hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Cropthorne in Worcestershire. It is a Geological Conservation Review site.
5.4 km · scrubland in Worcestershire, United Kingdom; Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia - 04Pershore 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.
100 m · municipal building in England · Wikipedia - 05Eckington 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.
4.5 km · bridge in Wychavon, Worcestershire, England, UK · 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.
400 m · building in Pershore, Worcestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia
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What Wikivoyage says to see
- 01Pershore Abbey
The parish church is the only remaining building of an abbey dating back to around 700.
- 02Croome Court
Neo-palladian mansion that belonged to the 6th Earl of Coventry.
From Wikivoyage: Pershore, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Things to do
- 01Rivers Leisure Centre
King George's Way, WR10 1QU,.
From Wikivoyage: Pershore, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Getting to Pershore
- Airports
- Birmingham (BHX), 44 km · Bristol (BRS), 92 km · East Midlands (EMA), 95 km
- Stations
- Pershore railway station, 1.9 km · Eckington railway station, 5.6 km · Stoulton railway station, 4.4 km
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Pershore43 km · quickest by road, 1h 11m · £5–7
- Bristol → Pershore81 km · quickest by road, 1h 48m · £8–11
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Pershore113 km · quickest by road, 2h 28m · £13–17
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Pershore
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 Pershore. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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Next door to Pershore
Pershore is 43 km from Birmingham, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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- Eckingtonvillage and civil parish in Worcestershire, UK5.3 km
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