West Malvern
West Malvern is a village and a civil parish on the west side of the north part of the Malvern Hills, on the western edge of Worcestershire, England.
West Malvern is a village and a civil parish on the west side of the north part of the Malvern Hills, on the western edge of Worcestershire, England. It has become effectively an outer suburb of Malvern and part of an urban area often called The Malverns, locally administered by Malvern Hills District Council and its own parish council. Its altitude up to 250 metres gives West Malvern panoramic views of the adjacent Herefordshire countryside to the west. The Church of St James, built in 1840, has an adjacent Church of England primary school. The churchyard includes the grave of Peter Mark Roget, author of Roget's Thesaurus, who died while on holiday in the village. The parish population was 1,385 according to the 2011 census and 1,217 according to the 2021 census.
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Worth seeing in and around West Malvern
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.
- 01Worcestershire Beacon
Worcestershire Beacon, also popularly known as Worcester Beacon, or locally simply as The Beacon, is a hill whose summit at 425 metres is the highest point in Worcestershire. It is part of the Malvern Hills which run about 13 kilometres north-south along the Herefordshire-Worcestershire border.
1.4 km · hill in the Malvern Hills, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Great Malvern Priory
Great Malvern Priory in Malvern, Worcestershire, England, was a Benedictine monastery and is now an Anglican parish church.
1.4 km · church in Great Malvern, Worcestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Regents Theological College
Regents Theological College is a theological college in Malvern, Worcestershire, England. It is the national training centre of the Elim Pentecostal Church.
300 m · theological college in West Malvern, Worcestershire, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 04Foley House
Foley House is a Grade II listed building at 28 Worcester Road, Malvern, Worcestershire, England. The two-storey house was created in the early to mid nineteenth century.
1.2 km · building in Malvern, Worcestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 05Church of St Peter, Cowleigh
The Church of St Peter, Cowleigh, is a Grade II listed Anglican church in the parish of Malvern Link and Cowleigh. It was built in 1865, and was designed by George Edmund Street.
1.2 km · church in Malvern, Malvern Hills, Worcestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 06End Hill
End Hill is the northernmost top of the Malvern Hills that runs approximately 13 kilometres north-south along the Herefordshire-Worcestershire border. It lies north of Table Hill and north-northwest of North Hill.
400 m · hill in the Malvern Hills, Worcestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 07Malvern Hills Science Park
Malvern Hills Science Park is located on a 10-acre site in the Barnards Green suburb of Malvern, Worcestershire, England. It is a partnership between a number of partners including: QinetiQ, Malvern Hills District Council, Worcestershire County Council, and the West Midlands Regional Development Agency, making a total of around 40 companies as of 2019.
2.7 km · science park in Worcestershire, England · Wikipedia - 08North Hill
North Hill is the second highest point of the range of Malvern Hills that runs about 13 kilometres north-south along the Herefordshire-Worcestershire border, although North Hill lies entirely within Worcestershire. It has an elevation of 397 metres, making it the highest point of the Worcestershire Way.
500 m · hill in the Malvern Hills, England, UK · Wikipedia - 09Table Hill
Table Hill is situated in the range of Malvern Hills that runs about 13 kilometres north-south along the Herefordshire-Worcestershire border. It lies between North Hill and Sugarloaf Hill and has an elevation of 373 metres.
300 m · hill in the Malvern Hills, England, UK · Wikipedia - 10The Theatre of Small Convenience
The Theatre of Small Convenience is a theatre on Edith Walk in Great Malvern, Worcestershire, England, founded by local performer and puppeteer Dennis Neale in 1997, opening for the first show in November 1999. In 2002 it entered the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's smallest commercial theatre, seating up to 12 people.
1.2 km · theatre in Malvern, England · Wikipedia
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Getting to West Malvern
- Airports
- Birmingham (BHX), 55 km · Bristol (BRS), 86 km · East Midlands (EMA), 105 km
- Stations
- Great Malvern railway station, 2.1 km · Malvern Link railway station, 2.1 km · Malvern Wells railway station, 2.8 km
- Birmingham, West Midlands → West Malvern51 km · quickest by road, 1h 24m · £5–7
- Bristol → West Malvern76 km · quickest by road, 1h 58m · £9–12
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → West Malvern123 km · quickest by road, 2h 41m · £13–17
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No local-transport research exists yet for West Malvern
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 West Malvern. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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Next door to West Malvern
West Malvern is 51 km from Birmingham, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Malvernspa town and civil parish in Worcestershire, England1.7 km
- Malvern Hillsnon-metropolitan district of Worcestershire, England, UK3.6 km
- Great Malvernarea of Malvern, Worcestershire, England1.3 km
- Newlandvillage and civil parish in Malvern Hills, Worcestershire, England, UK3.8 km
- Mathonvillage in Herefordshire, England, UK3.1 km
- Cradleyvillage in Herefordshire, UK2.9 km