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Upper Welland

Upper Welland is a small settled area within the civil parish of Malvern Wells, in Worcestershire, England.

The place

Upper Welland is a small settled area within the civil parish of Malvern Wells, in Worcestershire, England. Lying close to the county boundaries of Herefordshire.It was formed when the upper part of Welland parish joined the newly created Malvern Hills Urban District. Welland Parish once stretched to the ridge of the Malvern Hills. Its average elevation is 115 metres above the sea level.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Upper Welland

10 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
    Little Malvern Priory

    Little Malvern Priory, in the village of Little Malvern near Malvern, Worcestershire, was a Benedictine monastery c. 1171–1537.

    900 m · Grade I listed historic house museum in Malvern Hills, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Stowe Lane

    Stowe Lane is a cricket ground in Colwall, Herefordshire. The first recorded county match on the ground was in 1974, when the Worcestershire Second XI played the Glamorgan Second XI in the Second XI Championship.

    3 km · cricket ground in Colwall, Herefordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Jubilee Hill

    Jubilee Hill is situated in the range of Malvern Hills that runs about 13 kilometres north-south along the Herefordshire-Worcestershire border. It lies between Perseverance Hill and Pinnacle Hill and has an elevation of 327 metres.

    1.9 km · hill in the Malvern Hills, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Pinnacle Hill

    Pinnacle Hill is situated in the range of Malvern Hills in England, running about 13 kilometres north-south along the Herefordshire-Worcestershire border. It lies between Jubilee Hill and Black Hill and has an elevation of 357 metres.

    1.6 km · hill in the Malvern Hills, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Perrycroft

    Perrycroft is a country house in the district of Colwall, Herefordshire, England. The house was built between 1893-1895 and was designed by C. F. A. Voysey for John William Wilson.

    1.6 km · building in Colwall, Herefordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Swinyard Hill

    Swinyard Hill is a hill in the Malvern Range, a line of hills that runs approximately 13 kilometres north-south along the Herefordshire-Worcestershire border. Swinyard Hill lies north of Midsummer Hill and south of Hangmans Hill.

    2.4 km · hill in the Malvern Hills, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Malvern Wells War Memorial

    The Malvern Wells War Memorial is located on Wells Road in the village of Malvern Wells near Great Malvern in Worcestershire. The memorial marks the deaths of local individuals who died fighting in World War I and World War II. It was dedicated in June 1920 by Lieutenant Colonel W. R. Chichester in the aftermath of the First World War.

    1.6 km · war memorial in Malvern Wells, Worcestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    St Wulstan's Roman Catholic Church

    St Wulstan's Roman Catholic Church, Little Malvern, Worcestershire, England is a Benedictine parish church administered by the monks of Downside Abbey. The attached churchyard contains the grave of the composer Edward Elgar and of his wife, Alice.

    700 m · church in Worcestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Herefordshire Beacon

    The Herefordshire Beacon is one of the highest peaks of the Malvern Hills. It is surrounded by a British Iron Age hill fort earthwork known as British Camp.

    2 km · hill in the Malvern Hills, England, UK · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Three Counties Showground

    The Three Counties Showground is a showground site in Malvern, Worcestershire, England, covering 90 acres owned by the Three Counties Agricultural Society. The Three Counties refers to the agrarian counties of Gloucestershire, Herefordshire and Worcestershire.

    1.8 km · showground site in England · 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.

Go there

Getting to Upper Welland

Airports
Birmingham (BHX), 58 km · Bristol (BRS), 81 km · Cardiff (CWL), 102 km
Stations
Colwall railway station, 2.7 km · Malvern Wells railway station, 3.3 km
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Upper Welland
    54 km · quickest by road, 1h 33m · £6–8
  • Bristol → Upper Welland
    70 km · quickest by road, 1h 43m · £7–10
  • Cardiff → Upper Welland
    88 km · quickest by road, 2h 9m · £10–13
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Upper Welland

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 Upper Welland. 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

    169 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    190 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    432 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    468 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    491 km

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

Around it

Next door to Upper Welland

Upper Welland is 55 km from Birmingham, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Malvern Hillsnon-metropolitan district of Worcestershire, England, UK2.3 km
  • Colwallvillage in Herefordshire, England, UK2.7 km
  • Little Malvernvillage in Worcestershire, England, UK900 m
  • Malvern Wellsvillage in Worcestershire, England, UK1.5 km
  • Wellandvillage and civil parish in Worcestershire, England, UK2.1 km
  • Wychevillage in Worcestershire, England, UK3.2 km