Great Malvern

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Great Malvern
View over Great Malvern
View over Great Malvern
Coordinates 52 ° 7 ′  N , 2 ° 20 ′  W Coordinates: 52 ° 7 ′  N , 2 ° 20 ′  W
OS National Grid SO786459
Great Malvern (England)
Great Malvern
Great Malvern
administration
Post town Malvern
Part of the country England
Shire county Worcestershire
British Parliament West Midlands

Great Malvern is the historic city center of Malvern (Worcestershire) in England. The Malvern Hills District administration is located here in addition to the Malvern Town Hall . The neighboring towns of Barnards Green , Little Malvern , Malvern Link , Malvern Wells , North Malvern and West Malvern are referred to together with the Malvern Hills as The Malverns .

history

The Great Malvern Priory

The place Great Malvern arose since 1085 near the Great Malvern Priory . Great Malvern gained importance as a spa in the 19th century. Today's Malvern was created in 1900 through the merger of Great Malvern and Malvern Link. Until then, they were the urban districts of Great Malvern and Malvern Link .

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Culture

Malvern hosts one of the oldest fringe festivals every year under the name Malvern Fringe Festival . There are also the Malvern Theaters in the Winter Gardens , which are also used for music events.

traffic

Great Malvern is on the A449 and has a train station on the Worcester to Hereford railway line .

Malvern Water

There is a healing spring near Great Malvern from which Malvern Water springs. The Schweppes company dealt with industrial bottling on site. At the end of November 2010, however, the small traditional production facility was closed. The reason given was that the market share of mineral water had recently shrunk to 0.4%. The medicinal water had been used by several generations of the British royal family. In addition to Queen Elisabeth I , Queen Victoria and Queen Elisabeth II were among the consumers.

Web links

Commons : Great Malvern  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Royal mineral water problem: The Queen will be sitting on dry land in the future. In: Spiegel Online . October 22, 2010, accessed June 10, 2018 .