ATTRACTIONS IN WR1 9AJ
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0.7milesWorcester City Museum and Art Gallery
Foregate Street, Worcester, WR11DT
Worcester Museum was founded in 1833 by the members of the Worcestershire Natural History Society and claims to be one of the oldest regional museums in the Country. The collections were described as miscellaneous by one of the first curators and were originally shown in temporary rooms in Angel Street.
2.4milesSpetchley Park Gardens
Spetchley Park, Spetchley, WR51RS
Just three miles east of the beautiful cathedral city of Worcester and surrounded by glorious countryside, lies one of Britain's best kept secrets. From the first tantalizing glimpse of the garden across the magnolia-fringed Horse Pool, back round to the entrance through the Melon Yard with its olives and delicious pineapple-scented flowers, Spetchley is full of surprises.
3.2milesElgars Birthplace Museum
Crown East Lane, Lower Broadheath, Worcester, WR26RH
One of England's greatest composers, Sir Edward Elgar, was born on 2 June 1857, in this pretty country cottage near Worcester in the heart of England.After his death in 1934, Elgar's daughter Carice set up a Museum here, as her father had wished.
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10.4miles
Worcestershire County Museum
Hartlebury Castle, Hartlebury, Kidderminster, DY117XZ
WORCESTERSHIRE COUNTY MUSEUM IS TEMPORARILY CLOSED. THE FIRST STAGE OF THE MUSEUM'S RE-OPENING WILL BE IN JULY OF 2005.
10.7milesBrockhampton House and Estate
Brockhampton, WR65TB
This 688ha (1700-acre) estate was bequeathed to the National Trust in 1946 and still maintains traditional farms and extensive areas of woodland, including ancient oak and beech. Visitors can enjoy a variety of walks through park and woodland, which combine to form a rich habitat for wildlife such as the dormouse, buzzard and raven.
12.7milesStone House Cottage Gardens
Stone, DY104BG
A romantic garden set in an old walled kitchen garden. The area is only 1 acre but seems much larger- hedges divide it into different compartments and create diverse habitats in which to grow the vast selection of rare and unusual plants that thrive here.
13.5milesEastnor Castle
Eastnor, Ledbury, HR81RL
Eastnor Castle, in the dramatic setting of the Malvern Hills and surrounded by a beautiful deer park, arboretum and lake - is the home of the Hervey-Bathurst family.The style proposed by the architect, the young Robert Smirke, was Norman Revival.
13.5milesSevern Valley Railway
The Railway Station, Bewdley, Worcs, DY121BG
The best way to see the beauty of the River Severn is from a steam hailed train on the Severn valley Railway between Bridgnorth and Kidderminster. Resfreshments are available at stations and on most tyrains.
13.5milesWest Midlands Safari Park
Spring Grove, Bewdley, DY121LF
Voted the best attraction in the Midlands by both children and parents, come to West Midlands Safari Park to drive through safari, experience white-knuckle rides, walk through lemurs, meerkats and the discovery trail.West Midlands Safari Park is home to over 165 species of exotic animals, many of which are endagered.
13.6milesSevern Valley Railway
Comberton Hill, Kidderminster, DY101QN
In just over three decades, the Severn Valley Railway has graduated from relative obscurity to great prominence in British railway preservation. The Severn Valley Railway is a full-size standard-gauge line running regular steam-hauled passenger trains for the benefit of tourists and enthusiasts alike between Kidderminster in Worcestershire and Bridgnorth in Shropshire, a distance of 16 miles.
14.5milesForge Mill Needle Museum
Forge Mill, Needle Mill Lane, Redditch, B988HY
The needle museum tells the fascinating and sometimes gruesome story of how needles are made. Working, water-powered machinery can be seen in an original needle-scouring mill.
18.9milesBurford House gardens and Garden Centre
Tenbury Wells, Worcs, WR158HQ
Burford House Gardens is one of the regions most popular garden venues. The site incorporates a shop in the Georgian Mansion selling country house furnishings, surrounded by 7 acres of beautiful riverside gardens containing the National Clematis collection.
19.2milesMary Ardens House
Station Road, Wilmcote, CV379UN
Mary Ardens House in the village of Wilmcote, a couple of miles north of Stratford, was the childhood home of Shakespeare's mother. Situated three and a half miles outside Stratford, it is also home to the Shakespeare countryside museum, two historic farms, displays of farm implements, daily demonstrations by the Heart of England falconry, a blacksmith's forge and a duck pond.
19.3milesHailes Abbey
Hailes, GL545PB
Hailes Abbey is a 13th Century Cistercian abbey, founded in 1246 and once a celebrated site of pilgrimage, but now in ruins.Remains of the dramatic cloister arches survive and there is a small museum.
19.7milesNature in Art
Wallsworth Hall, Tewkesbury Rd, Twigworth, Gloucester, Glouc, GL29PA
The world's first museum dedicated exclusively to fine, decorative and applied art inspired by nature from any period, any culture and in any media. International in scope, appeal and stature, NATURE IN ART fills a gap in the museums and galleries you can visit by presenting a unique wildlife art collection.
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19.7milesSnowshill Manor
Snowshill, WR127JU
Snowshill is a Cotswold manor house with eclectic collection and Arts & Crafts-style garden.Snowshill Manor contains Charles Paget Wade's extraordinary collection of craftmanship and design, including musical instruments, clocks, toys, bicycles, weavers' and spinners' tools and Japanese armour.
19.7milesThe Shambles
Church Street, Newent, GL181PP
The Shambles is a collection of Victorian buildings - cottages, houses, alleyways, streets, courtyards, shops and workshops, housing one of the largest collections of everyday Victoriana in the country! Life as it was in 1890's (right in the middle of Victorian times) - almost 100 windows to peer into, and thousands of Victorian objects to see! About an acre to explore! Cobbled streets and alleys to wander round.Over 80 shops and shop windows to peer into: there is a Policeman keeping an eye on things, a fantastic photographers studio in a conservatory - all manner of stuffed animals in the taxidermists workshop, the Chapel just ready for a service, two old men having a yarn over a pint in the gas-lit beer cellar.
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