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Pershore Abbey - Photo:
MYM
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The setting for an annual plum
fair, this elegant Georgian market town’s greatest
single tourist attraction is an abbey dating back
to the time of King Oswald in the 7th century.
Although it was largely destroyed by Henry VIII’s
Dissolution of the Monasteries, the abbey church
has survived together with its 14th century tower
and 13th century apse.
Pershore is home to the Royal Horticultural
Society’s Centre for the West Midlands at Pershore
College and Plant Centre, which hosts the national
collections of penstemons and philadelphus. Nearby
is the historic National Trust property Croome
Park - the first complete landscape designed by
Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown - which is being
lovingly restored to its 18th century splendour.
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