Wychavon
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Wychavon is a local government district in Worcestershire
Worcestershire
Worcestershire is a non-metropolitan county, established in antiquity, located in the West Midlands region of England. For Eurostat purposes it is a NUTS 3 region and is one of three counties that comprise the "Herefordshire, Worcestershire and Warwickshire" NUTS 2 region...

, England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

. Its council is based in Pershore
Pershore
Pershore is a market town in Worcestershire, England, on the banks of the River Avon. Pershore is in the Wychavon district and is part of the West Worcestershire parliamentary constituency. At the 2001 census the population was 7,304...

. Other towns in the district include Droitwich Spa
Droitwich Spa
Droitwich Spa is a town in northern Worcestershire, England, on the River Salwarpe.The town is situated on massive deposits of salt, and salt has been extracted there since ancient times. The natural Droitwich brine contains 2½ lbs...

, Evesham
Evesham
Evesham is a market town and a civil parish in the Local Authority District of Wychavon in the county of Worcestershire, England with a population of 22,000. It is located roughly equidistant between Worcester, Cheltenham and Stratford-upon-Avon...

 and Broadway
Broadway, Worcestershire
Broadway is a village and civil parish in the Worcestershire part of the Cotswolds in England.Often referred to as the "Jewel of the Cotswolds", Broadway village lies beneath Fish Hill on the western Cotswold escarpment...

. The district extends from the south-east corner of Worcestershire north and west. The districts to the west are Malvern Hills
Malvern Hills (district)
Malvern Hills is a local government district in Worcestershire, England. Its council is based in the town of Malvern, and its area covers most of the western half of the county that borders Herefordshire. It was originally formed in 1974 and was subject to a significant boundary reform in 1998...

 and Worcester
Worcester
The City of Worcester, commonly known as Worcester, , is a city and county town of Worcestershire in the West Midlands of England. Worcester is situated some southwest of Birmingham and north of Gloucester, and has an approximate population of 94,000 people. The River Severn runs through the...

 and to the north Wyre Forest
Wyre Forest (district)
This article is about the local government district in WorcestershireWyre Forest is a local government district in Worcestershire, England, covering the towns of Kidderminster, Stourport-on-Severn and Bewdley, and several civil parishes and their villages...

 .

The district was created under the Local Government Act 1972
Local Government Act 1972
The Local Government Act 1972 is an Act of Parliament in the United Kingdom that reformed local government in England and Wales on 1 April 1974....

, on 1 April 1974. It was a merger of the boroughs of Droitwich and Evesham along with Evesham
Evesham
Evesham is a market town and a civil parish in the Local Authority District of Wychavon in the county of Worcestershire, England with a population of 22,000. It is located roughly equidistant between Worcester, Cheltenham and Stratford-upon-Avon...

 Rural District
Rural district
Rural districts were a type of local government area – now superseded – established at the end of the 19th century in England, Wales, and Ireland for the administration of predominantly rural areas at a level lower than that of the administrative counties.-England and Wales:In England...

 and most of Droitwich Rural District and most of Pershore
Pershore
Pershore is a market town in Worcestershire, England, on the banks of the River Avon. Pershore is in the Wychavon district and is part of the West Worcestershire parliamentary constituency. At the 2001 census the population was 7,304...

 Rural District.

The district's name, which was invented in 1973, contains two elements. "Wych" recalls the Saxon
Anglo-Saxons
Anglo-Saxon is a term used by historians to designate the Germanic tribes who invaded and settled the south and east of Great Britain beginning in the early 5th century AD, and the period from their creation of the English nation to the Norman conquest. The Anglo-Saxon Era denotes the period of...

 Kingdom of Hwicca
Hwicce
The Hwicce were one of the peoples of Anglo-Saxon England. The exact boundaries of their kingdom are uncertain, though it is likely that they coincided with those of the old Diocese of Worcester, founded in 679–80, the early bishops of which bore the title Episcopus Hwicciorum...

, and "Avon" is for the River Avon
River Avon, Warwickshire
The River Avon or Avon is a river in or adjoining the counties of Leicestershire, Northamptonshire, Warwickshire, Worcestershire and Gloucestershire in the Midlands of England...

.

Wychavon District Council is joint 'Council of the Year 2007', along with High Peak Borough Council
High Peak Borough Council
High Peak Borough Council is a non-metropolitan district council with borough status in the north of Derbyshire, England. It forms part of the two tier system of local government alongside Derbyshire County Council for the High Peak. The administrative base of High Peak Borough Council is split...

. It was also featured as the 'Best Council to work for' by the Sunday Times

Civil Parishes

The Wychavon district includes the following Civil parish
Civil parish
In England, a civil parish is a territorial designation and, where they are found, the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties...

es
  • Abberton
    Abberton, Worcestershire
    Abberton is a small village in Worcestershire, England. In the 1850s, the village had 80 inhabitants, one fourth of this was the local priest's 19 children. In 1894, the town had a population of 95 and an area of...

     Parish Meeting
  • Abbots Morton
    Abbots Morton
    Abbots Morton is a village and civil parish in the English county of Worcestershire. It consists of approximately 70 dwellings and 250 people. It retains 4 mixed working farms within the village boundaries. The village was the country retreat for the Abbots of Evesham Abbey and the moat that...

     Parish Council
  • Ashton-under-Hill Parish Council
  • Badsey
    Badsey
    Badsey is a village and civil parish in the Wychavon district of Worcestershire, England, United Kingdom. It has two parks and a small first school located in the centre of the village.-Location:...

     and Aldington
    Aldington, Worcestershire
    Aldington is a village and civil parish in the Wychavon district of Worcestershire, England. It is about three miles east of Evesham, and according to the census of 2001, had a population of 232....

     Parish Council
  • Beckford
    Beckford, Worcestershire
    Beckford is a small village on the main Cheltenham to Evesham Road, five miles north-east of Tewkesbury, on the Worcestershire - Gloucestershire border, England....

     Parish Council
  • Bickmarsh
    Bickmarsh
    Bickmarsh is a village and civil parish in the Wychavon district of Worcestershire, England. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 65. The village is on the Warwickshire border, and is about eight miles north-east of Evesham....

     Parish Meeting
  • Birlingham
    Birlingham
    Birlingham is a village and civil parish in the Wychavon district of Worcestershire, England, about three miles south of Pershore. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 325...

     Parish Council
  • Bishampton
    Bishampton
    Bishampton is a village and civil parish in the Wychavon district of Worcestershire, England with a population of 678.. It contains a church, a village shop and post office, a hairdresser, a village hall with a park and children's play areas, and a pub. There is a Nature reserve and a cricket pitch...

     and Throckmorton
    Throckmorton, Worcestershire
    Throckmorton is a small village and civil parish in the administrative district of Wychavon, in the county of Worcestershire, England.The village lies 5.2 miles northeast of Pershore , five miles north-west of Evesham and 12 miles southeast of the city of Worcester...

     Parish Council
  • Bredicot Parish Meeting
  • Bredon
    Bredon
    Bredon is a large village and civil parish in Wychavon District at the southern edge of Worcestershire in England. It lies on the banks of the River Avon on the lower slopes of Bredon Hill, at “the beginning of the Cotswolds”...

    , Bredons Norton and Westmancote Parish Council
  • Bretforton
    Bretforton
    Bretforton is a rural village in Worcestershire, England. Bretforton is east of Evesham, in the Vale of Evesham. It is the largest farming village around Evesham. At the 2001 census, Bretforton had a population of 1,023 in 428 households...

     Parish Council
  • Broadway
    Broadway, Worcestershire
    Broadway is a village and civil parish in the Worcestershire part of the Cotswolds in England.Often referred to as the "Jewel of the Cotswolds", Broadway village lies beneath Fish Hill on the western Cotswold escarpment...

     Parish Council
  • Broughton Hackett
    Broughton Hackett
    Broughton Hackett is a village and civil parish in the Wychavon district of the county of Worcestershire, England. It is about 5 miles east of the city of Worcester, on the A442 and according to the 2001 census had a population of 173....

     Parish Meeting
  • Charlton
    Charlton, Worcestershire
    Charlton is a village in the Wychavon district of the county of Worcestershire, England.During the 2007 United Kingdom floods, many homes were affected for the second time in a decade.Charlton lies between the River Avon and Bredon Hill...

     Parish Council
  • Childswickham
    Childs Wickham
    Childswickham is a village in Worcestershire, England, situated within the flat openlandscape of the Vale of Evesham, between the Bredon and Cotswold Hills, two miles from Broadway...

     Parish Council
  • Church Lench
    Church Lench
    Church Lench is a village in Worcestershire, England, approximately 5.5 miles due north of Evesham. It is the largest of the surrounding Lenches, accommodating the Lenches Sports Club, the Lenches Members Club, as well as Church Lench First School and Church Lench village hall....

     Parish Council
  • Churchill
    Churchill, Worcestershire
    Churchill is a village in the Wyre Forest District of Worcestershire, England, near to Kidderminster. It is in the civil parish of Churchill and Blakedown and is one of the few surviving water-powered plating forges in the United Kingdom - Churchill Forge Mill.-Further reading:* A Pictorial History...

     Parish Meeting
  • Cleeve Prior
    Cleeve Prior
    Cleeve Prior is a village in the Vale of Evesham Worcestershire, England. It is situated on the cliff on the Worcestershire/Warwickshire border above the river Avon. There are many picturesque houses made from the local lias stone, including the Kings Arms public house and the 150 year old school....

     Parish Council
  • Cookhill
    Cookhill
    Cookhill is a village and civil parish in Worcestershire, England, on the county border near Alcester.-Politics:Cookhill is represented mainly by the Conservative Party and the Liberal Democrat Party, and is part of the South Redditch ward of Worcestershire County Council and as of January 2010 is...

     Parish Council
  • Cropthorne
    Cropthorne
    Cropthorne is a village in Worcestershire, England within the Vale of Evesham, approximately southeast of Worcester. Cropthorne has a population of 589, in 237 households . Located on a small ridge overlooking the River Avon, its ancient orchards sweep down to the river and offer clear, unbroken...

     Parish Council
  • Crowle
    Crowle, Worcestershire
    Crowle is a village in Worcestershire, England situated east of the City of Worcester.Crowle is known for its Church of England St John the Baptist Church....

     Parish Council
  • Defford
    Defford
    Defford is a small village in the county of Worcestershire, England, located between the towns of Pershore and Upton-upon-Severn.Defford also has a primary school, Defford cum Besford First School,and three pubs....

     and Besford
    Besford
    Besford is a village and civil parish in the Wychavon district of Worcestershire, England. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 147. The village is near Pershore, off the road from Upton-upon-Severn. A historic house, Besford Court , is located in the village...

     Parish Council
  • Dodderhill
    Dodderhill
    Dodderhill is a village and civil parish, near Droitwich, Worcestershire, England, located on the River Salwarpe. The parish is bisected by the M5 motorway, constructed in 1962...

     Parish Council
  • Drakes Broughton
    Drakes Broughton
    Drakes Broughton is a village in Worcestershire, England.The village is situated on the B4084 road 2 miles north of Pershore and 7 miles south of Worcester.The village has two pubs; the Old Oak and the Plough and Harrow....

     and Wadborough
    Wadborough
    Wadborough is a small village 2 miles outside Pershore and 7 miles from Worcester. The village is in Worcestershire, England. The village is an old farming community, with its nearest church a mile away in Pirton....

     with Pirton
    Pirton, Worcestershire
    Pirton is a small village in the English county of Worcestershire.Pirton has some uncommon features for a village.A folly- near Pirton pool,...

     Parish Council
  • Droitwich Spa Town Council
  • Eckington
    Eckington, Worcestershire
    Eckington is a small village near to the southern border of the English county of Worcestershire, according to the 2001 census it had a population of 1,202....

     Parish Council
  • Elmbridge
    Elmbridge, Worcestershire
    Elmbridge is a small village in Worcestershire, England. There is an Anglican church dedicated to Saint Mary....

     Parish Council
  • Elmley Castle
    Elmley Castle
    Elmley Castle is a village and civil parish in Worcestershire, in England, United Kingdom. It is located on the north side of Bredon Hill 4 kilometres south east of Pershore in the local government district of Wychavon.- Amenities and history :...

    , Bricklehampton and Netherton Parish Council
  • Elmley Lovett Parish Council
  • Evesham
    Evesham
    Evesham is a market town and a civil parish in the Local Authority District of Wychavon in the county of Worcestershire, England with a population of 22,000. It is located roughly equidistant between Worcester, Cheltenham and Stratford-upon-Avon...

     Town Council
  • Fladbury
    Fladbury
    Fladbury is a traditional English village located in rural Worcestershire, England. The village was mentioned in the Domesday Book, almost 1,000 years ago. It is sited on the banks of the River Avon, with many interesting and original buildings and features. Cropthorne village is on the opposite...

     Parish Council
  • Flyford Flavell
    Flyford Flavell
    Flyford Flavell is a village in Worcestershire, England. It has a well stocked village shop and post office, an excellent pub in the centre of the village, and an excellent school. A garage and another pub lie on the periphery of the village....

    , Grafton Flyford
    Grafton Flyford
    Grafton Flyford is a village in Worcestershire, England....

     and North Piddle
    North Piddle
    North Piddle is a small civil parish in the Wychavon district of Worcestershire, England. It is located at Piddle Brook.North Piddle is a historic parish and a few of the parish's structures have been designated as listed buildings by English Heritage, because they are structures of special...

     Parish Council
  • Great Comberton
    Great Comberton
    Great Comberton is a village in Worcestershire, England, United Kingdom.-Location:Great Comberton village is located 3 kilometres or two-and-a-half miles south of Pershore, below the steep northern slopes of Bredon Hill, a thousand feet high....

     Parish Council
  • Hadzor
    Hadzor
    Hadzor is a small village in Worcestershire, England. There are around fourteen houses and a Roman Catholic church in the village, although there is no shop or school and the Church of England church was closed in the 1970s...

    , Himbleton
    Himbleton
    Himbleton is a village in Worcestershire, England. It lies about south-east of Droitwich and north-east of Worcester. There is an Anglican church, dedicated to Saint Mary Magdalene ....

    , Huddington
    Huddington
    Huddington is a village in Worcestershire, England.- Location :Huddington is located five miles east of Worcester and five miles south east of Droitwich Spa.- History & Amenities :...

     and Oddingley
    Oddingley
    Oddingley is a village and civil parish in the English county of Worcestershire, approximately north-east of the county town of Worcester.-History:-Toponymy:...

     (Saleway) Parish Council
  • Hampton Lovett and Westwood Parish Council
  • Hanbury
    Hanbury, Worcestershire
    Hanbury is a small rural village in Worcestershire, England near Droitwich Spa and the M5 motorway.- History :Although some flint tools of indeterminate date have been found in the parish the main feature surviving from prehistory is the iron age hill fort on Church Hill...

     Parish Council
  • Hartlebury
    Hartlebury
    Hartlebury is a village in Worcestershire, England. It is a few miles south of Kidderminster and is in Wychavon district. The village registered a population of 2,549 in the Census 2001.The railway station is about half a mile to the east of the village....

     Parish Council
  • Harvington
    Harvington
    Harvington is a village near Evesham in Worcestershire, England.-Past:Harvington is first mentioned in the Anglo Saxon charters of 709CE when it was known as HERVERTON.-Harvey:The famous portrait artist lives in Harvington...

     Parish Council
  • Hill and Moor
    Hill and Moor
    Hill and Moor is a civil parish in the Wychavon district of Worcestershire, England. It includes the village Lower Moor and the hamlets of Upper Moor, Hill and Hill Furze.-External links:*...

     Parish Council
  • Hindlip, Martin Hussingtree
    Martin Hussingtree
    Martin Hussingtree is a small village situated between Droitwich Spa and Worcester in the county of Worcestershire, England. It is north of another village called Fernhill Heath. It is situated on a junction of the A38 and A4538...

     and Salwarpe Parish Council
  • Hinton-on-the-Green
    Hinton-on-the-Green
    Hinton-on-the-Green is a village and civil parish in the Wychavon district of Worcestershire in England. It is situated at the foot of Bredon Hill about two miles south of Evesham....

     and Aston Somerville
    Aston Somerville
    Aston Somerville is a small village approximately south of Evesham, Worcestershire, England. More information including books on the Somerville family, a pamphlet on the village and St Mary's Church can be found here:...

     Parish Council
  • Honeybourne
    Honeybourne
    Honeybourne is a village and civil parish about east of Evesham in Worcestershire, England. Much of the parish is farmland. RAF Honeybourne just south of the village was operational from 1940 until 1947.-History:...

     Parish Council
  • Inkberrow
    Inkberrow
    Inkberrow is a village in the district of Wychavon, Worcestershire that is often thought to be the model for Ambridge, the setting of the BBC Radio 4 long running radio serialisation or soap opera The Archers. In particular 'The Bull', the fictional Ambridge pub, is supposed to be based on a very...

     Parish Council
  • Kemerton
    Kemerton
    Kemerton is a village and civil parish in Worcestershire in England. It lies at the extreme south of the county in the local government district of Wychavon. Until boundary changes in 1931, it formed part of neighbouring Gloucestershire, and it remains in the Diocese of Gloucester...

     Parish Council
  • Kington
    Kington, Worcestershire
    Kington is a village in Worcestershire, England. Situated near to Flyford Flavell, the earliest known recording of Kington in the Domesday Book under "cyne-turne" – the "King's farmstead"....

     and Dormston
    Dormston
    Dormston is a village and civil parish in Worcestershire about south of Redditch.-History:Dormston's toponym has evolved from Deormodesealdtune in the 10th century via Dormestun in the 11th Century and Dormyston in the 15th century before reaching its present form...

     Parish Council
  • Little Comberton
    Little Comberton
    Little Comberton is a small village in Worcestershire, England. It is located to the southeast of Pershore.Little Comberton has a village website: www.little-comberton.com....

     Parish Council
  • Naunton Beauchamp
    Naunton Beauchamp
    Naunton Beachamp is a village and is also a civil parish within Wychavon district in Worcestershire, England. It is in the centre of the county, about four and a half miles from Pershore and nine miles from Worcester....

     Parish Council
  • North and Middle Littleton
    North and Middle Littleton
    North and Middle Littleton is a civil parish located in the Wychavon district of Worcestershire, England. The parish comprises the villages of North Littleton and Middle Littleton, and is located near the larger settlement of South Littleton...

     Parish Council
  • North Claines Parish Council
  • Norton and Lenchwick Parish Council
  • Norton-juxta-Kempsey Parish Council
  • Offenham
    Offenham
    Offenham is a large rural village and civil parish in the Wychavon district of Worcestershire, England, located about three miles east of Evesham, in the Vale of Evesham. The River Avon flows through Offenham. The civil parish extends beyond the area of the settlement of Offenham and includes...

     Parish Council
  • Ombersley
    Ombersley
    The village of Ombersley is in the Wychavon District Council area of Worcestershire.The first known reference to the village was the granting of a Charter to Abbot Egwin, later Saint Egwin, of Evesham Abbey in 706 AD. This was the Charter of King Æthelweard of the Hwicce, which granted twelve...

     and Doverdale Parish Council
  • Overbury
    Overbury
    Overbury is a village and civil parish in the English county of Worcestershire.It is located midway between the towns of Evesham and Tewkesbury to the south of Bredon Hill....

     and Conderton
    Conderton
    Conderton is a small hamlet in Worcestershire, England. It had a larger population at the time of the Domesday Book than its present 100 or so residents....

     Parish Council
  • Pebworth
    Pebworth
    Pebworth is a village and civil parish in the county of Worcestershire, lying about 8 km north-north-west of the town of Chipping Campden in Gloucestershire. Until 1931, the parish – which includes the hamlet of Broad Marston – was itself in Gloucestershire, as part of Pebworth Rural District...

     Parish Council
  • Peopleton
    Peopleton
    Peopleton is a village and civil parish in the Wychavon district of Worcestershire, England. In 2001 the parish had a population of 640, with 245 households.-Location:Peopleton is located about south east of Worcester and north of Pershore...

     Parish Council
  • Pershore
    Pershore
    Pershore is a market town in Worcestershire, England, on the banks of the River Avon. Pershore is in the Wychavon district and is part of the West Worcestershire parliamentary constituency. At the 2001 census the population was 7,304...

     Town Council
  • Pinvin
    Pinvin
    Pinvin is a village in Worcestershire, England, a little to the north of Pershore, about 7½ miles south-east of Worcester, and about 6 miles north-west of Evesham and is in fact the location of Pershore railway station. The name is thought to come from 'Penda's fen' after the Mercian King Penda...

     Parish Council
  • Rous Lench Parish Council
  • Sedgeberrow
    Sedgeberrow
    Sedgeberrow is a village and civil parish in the Wychavon district of Worcestershire, England, about south of Evesham. It stands beside the River Isbourne, a tributary of the River Avon.-History:...

     Parish Council
  • South Littleton
    South Littleton
    South Littleton is a village and civil parish located in the Wychavon district of Worcestershire, England.South Littleton is located midway between Evesham and Bidford on Avon. South Littleton is the largest of The Littletons, with North and Middle Littleton being smaller...

     Parish Council
  • Spetchley
    Spetchley
    Spetchley is a hamlet located in the County of Worcestershire, England, and lends its name to the Civil Parish in which the hamlet is located....

     Parish Meeting
  • Stock and Bradley Parish Council
  • Stoulton Parish Council
  • Strensham
    Strensham
    Strensham is a village in the Wychavon district of Worcestershire. In the 2001 census, the civil parish of Strensham had a population of 314 across 127 households...

     Parish Council
  • Tibberton
    Tibberton, Worcestershire
    Tibberton is a village in Worcestershire, England.The unusual dedication of Tibberton's Church of England parish church to St. Peter ad Vincula is derived from the ancient Basilica of San Pietro in Vincoli in Rome....

     Parish Council
  • Upton Snodsbury Parish Council
  • Upton Warren
    Upton Warren
    Upton Warren is a village and civil parish in the Wychavon district, in Worcestershire, England. The village is situated just off the A38 road between Bromsgrove and Droitwich Spa, and on the River Salwarpe...

     Parish Council
  • White Ladies Aston
    White Ladies Aston
    White Ladies Aston is a village in Worcestershire, England, United Kingdom, and also lends its name to the Civil Parish in which the village is located.- History & amenities :The parish is bound to the east by the Bow Brook...

     Parish Meeting
  • Whittington
    Whittington, Worcestershire
    Whittington is a small village near Worcester close to Junction 7 of the M5 motorway, bounded by the motorway and the main Evesham to Worcester A44 trunk road, in the District of Wychavon...

     Parish Council
  • Wick
    Wick, Worcestershire
    Wick is a village in the district of Wychavon in the county of Worcestershire, England. It is located 2 miles from the town of Pershore in the Vale of Evesham, and nestles in a large bend in the River Avon. It is bounded by areas of parkland listed by the Wychavon District Council as Locally...

     Parish Council
  • Wickhamford
    Wickhamford
    Wickhamford is a village and a civil parish in Worcestershire, England. It is situated on the A44 road approximately halfway between the towns of Evesham and Broadway...

     Parish Council
  • Wyre Piddle
    Wyre Piddle
    Wyre Piddle is a village and civil parish in the Wychavon district of Worcestershire, England. It is on the River Avon, near where that river is joined by the Piddle Brook - between Evesham and Pershore...

    Parish Council
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