Witley Court in Worcestershire, Britain is a Grade one listed building and was once one of the great houses of the Midlands, but today it's an impressive ruin after being destroyed by fire in 1937.It was built by Thomas Foley in 1655 on the location of a previous estate house near Great Witley.Successive additions were designed by John Nash in the early 1800s and the Court was subsequently acquired by the Dudley family in 1837.
The county city and only town is Worcester. The other major settlements Bromsgrove and Redditch are satellite towns of Birmingham. There also are a few market cities: Malvern, Bewdley, Evesham, Droitwich Spa and Tenbury Wells. Here is a brief summary of the towns and villages in Worcestershire County.
The River Severn is the longest brook in Great Britain, at roughly 354 kilometres.It is rises at an altitude of 610 mtrs on Plynlimon near Llanidloes, Powys, in the Cambrian Mountains of mid Wales. It then flows through Shropshire, Worcestershire and Gloucestershire, with the county cities of Shrewsbury, Worcester, and Gloucester on its banks.
The Malvern Hills are a selection of hills in the English counties of Worcestershire, Herefordshire and a little area of north Gloucestershire, dominating the encompassing country and the cities and towns of the district of Malvern.The highest peak of the hills affords a panorama of the Severn valley with the hills of Herefordshire and the Welsh mountains, parts of thirteen counties, the Bristol Channel,
Worcestershire is a non-metropolitan county, established in ancient times, found in the West Midlands area of central Britain . In 1974 it was combined with the close by county of Herefordshire to form the county of Hereford and Worcester ; which was divided in 1998, re-establishing Worcestershire once again as an independent entity.