Pershore

Pershore is a marketplace town in Worcestershire, England, on the banks of the River Avon. Pershore is inside the Wychavon district and is part of the West Worcestershire parliamentary constituency. At the 2011 census the populace was 7,250. The metropolis is first-class acknowledged for Pershore Abbey, Pershore College now a campus of Warwickshire College, and the plums and pears grown domestically. Pershore is located at the River Avon, 6 miles west of Evesham and 6 miles east of Upton-upon-Severn within the Vale of Evesham, a district wealthy in fruit and vegetable production quotation wished. The metropolis lies near the A44 halfway from Worcester to Evesham.

The nearest dual carriageway junctions are junction 7 of the M5 South Worcester or junction 1 of the M50. Pershore Abbey, at Pershore in Worcestershire, turned into an Anglo-Saxon abbey and is now an Anglican parish church, the Church of the Holy Cross. Pershore suffered worse misfortune when consistent with Leland, it turned into destroyed by fireplace and ultimately deserted via the priests, probable in the year 1002.

The monastic data have been in large part lost in the occasion, as no unique document from before that date survives these days. Pershore, however, discovered a beneficiant consumer inside the rich nobleman Odda of Deerhurst d. 1056, who restored lots of its lands and granted new ones. It has been counseled that he changed into a kinsman of the ealdorman thelweard. The earliest extant document from the archive of Pershore, a constitution of 1014 by using which King thelred granted Mathon Herefordshire to ealdorman Leofwine, may also testify to Odda's restorations of lands to the residence.