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Worcestershire

Ceremonial county in the West Midlands of England.

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The area was the heartland of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of the Hwicce before being absorbed by Mercia and then England.[1] In the early tenth century, Worcestershire was created as a unit for administration and defense.[1]

Geography and history

The Malvern Hills, made of volcanic and metamorphic rocks over 1,200 million years old, run through the south of the county.[2] After the Norman Conquest, the Domesday Book recorded that the Crown had no authority in seven of Worcestershire's twelve hundreds.[3] In 1263, Worcester's Jewish residents were attacked by a baronial force, and most were killed.[4] The Battle of Evesham, where Simon de Montfort was killed, took place in the county on 4 August 1265.[4]

In the 19th century, Worcester was a centre for glove manufacture, Kidderminster for carpets, and Redditch for needles and springs.[5] Worcestershire County Council was created in 1888 following the Local Government Act.[6] The county was re-established as an administrative and ceremonial county on 1 April 1998 after the abolition of Hereford and Worcester.[7] Worcestershire had many exclaves—detached parcels of land entirely encircled by other counties such as Warwickshire, Staffordshire, Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, and Oxfordshire.[8]

What the cited sources add

A local history source notes that in 1928, Dudley's boundaries were extended to include the priory and castle, which had always been outside the town.[9] The same source records that the Priory Estate was built between 1929 and 1939.[9]

References

  1. Wikipedia, "Worcestershire" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Brooks N, Cubitt C (1996). "St. Oswald of Worcester - Life and Influence". The administrative landscape of the Diocese of Worcester in the tenth century. p147; Brooks, "Worcestershire", Yale University Press, 2007, p. 2; James BSc(Hons) MSc PhD FIAP, "Stourbridge's Western Boundary: A cornerstone of the historical landscape", Stourbridge's Western Boundary, 11 April 2018 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  2. Wikipedia, "Worcestershire" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Bathurst, "County Tops", Hill-bagging.co.uk, 2012, p. 167–173}}; {{cite web (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  3. Wikipedia, "Worcestershire" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Tinti F.(2010) Sustaining Belief: The Church of Worcester from c.870 to c.1100 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  4. Wikipedia, "Worcestershire" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Willis-Bund Page 1924, p. 376–390 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  5. Wikipedia, "Worcestershire" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Bottled Waters of the World . Retrieved 9 August 2009 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  6. Wikipedia, "Worcestershire" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Webb, "English Local Government from the Revolution to the Municipal Corporations Act", Longman's Green and Co., 1906, p. 283–287; HM Government Legislation Local Government Act 1888 – Retrieved 7 May 2020 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  7. Wikipedia, "Worcestershire" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: HM Government Legislation The Hereford and Worcester (Structural, Boundary and Electoral Changes) Order 1996 – Retrieved 7 May 2020; House of Commons Debates – Parliamentary Business – Retrieved 7 May 2020; Final Recommendations for the Future Local Government of Hereford and Worcester. December 1994 – Retrieved 16 May 2013 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  8. Wikipedia, "Worcestershire" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Richardson, Eric (2000) The Black Country as Seen through Antique Maps, The Black Country Society; A Vision of Britain through Time Evenlode, Worcestershire – Retrieved 7 May 2020; A Vision of Britain through Time Blockley, Worcestershire – Retrieved 7 August 2014; Worcester Branch of the Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy and Heraldry Shipston-upon-Stour – Retrieved 7 May 2020; Worcester Branch of the Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy and Heraldry Rochford, Herefordshire – Retrieved 7 May 2020; Worcester Branch of the B en.wikipedia.org
  9. "A History of Dudley", Localhistories.org. facts only, no text reused. localhistories.org

Each numbered sentence above was checked against the source it cites before publication. Sentences citing Wikipedia adapt text from the English Wikipedia article Worcestershire (contributors), used under CC BY-SA 4.0; this entry is available under the same licence. Other sources were used for facts only; no text or images are copied from them.

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