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Pershore

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

Pershore
Pershore · Mike Peel
The place

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.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

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.

  1. 01
    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.

    400 m · church in Pershore, Worcestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    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.

    400 m · municipal building in England · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Cropthorne 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
  4. 04
    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.

    100 m · municipal building in England · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    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.

    4.5 km · bridge in Wychavon, Worcestershire, England, UK · 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.

    400 m · building in Pershore, Worcestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

See

What Wikivoyage says to see

  1. 01
    Pershore Abbey

    The parish church is the only remaining building of an abbey dating back to around 700.

  2. 02
    Croome 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.

Do

Things to do

  1. 01
    Rivers Leisure Centre

    King George's Way, WR10 1QU,.

From Wikivoyage: Pershore, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Go there

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 → Pershore
    43 km · quickest by road, 1h 11m · £5–7
  • Bristol → Pershore
    81 km · quickest by road, 1h 48m · £8–11
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Pershore
    113 km · quickest by road, 2h 28m · £13–17
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Not yet researched

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.

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

    207 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
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    493 km

If you know how people move in Pershore – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Pershore

Pershore is 43 km from Birmingham, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Cropthornevillage in Worcestershire, England, UK5.3 km
  • Fladburyvillage in Worcestershire, England, UK4.9 km
  • Throckmortonvillage and civil parish in Wychavon, Worcestershire, United Kingdom4.9 km
  • Eckingtonvillage and civil parish in Worcestershire, UK5.3 km
  • Wyre Piddlevillage in Worcestershire, England, UK2.3 km
  • Bricklehamptonvillage in Worcestershire, England, UK5.1 km