Everything about Great Malvern totally explained
Great Malvern is a
town in
Worcestershire,
England, positioned at the foot, and partly on the sides, of the
Malvern Hills.
Great Malvern is the main part of
Malvern, Worcestershire; other parts include
Barnards Green,
Little Malvern,
Malvern Link,
Malvern Wells,
North Malvern, and
West Malvern often referred to as
The Malverns and more in-depth information on Malvern will be found in the dedicated sections on these town areas.
Town centre
The Malvern Hills give the town a steep incline, particularly Church Street, one of the two main streets, which makes getting around the town centre relatively tricky. The other main street is the perpendicular Bellevue Terrace, a relatively flat extension of the Worcester Road. At the heart of the town is a statue of
Edward Elgar, who lived in and loved the town. Among the many shops are two
supermarkets (
Waitrose and
Somerfield, 20
meters (66
feet) apart), a
W H Smith bookshop, a
Woolworths department store, Severn Office Supplies, Brays (clothing), and an extensive
Public Library. Since the construction of supermarkets in the town centre and other parts of Malvern, most of the shops in the town centre are now tea-rooms, specialist cafés and snack bars, banks, building societies (British home mortgage companies), second-hand books shops, law firms and solicitors offices and estate agents.
Along the railway line from
Worcester to
Hereford is the
Victorian Great Malvern railway station, whose waiting room has been converted to a traditional tearoom. The station is a listed building and is a superb existing example of Victorian railway architecture. It has a private pedestrian tunnel (now derelict) built specially for the guests of the nearby Imperial Hotel which was the town's largest during its heyday as a spa town and resort. In
1893 the building which housed the hotel became the
Malvern Girls' College now called Malvern St James. Malvern Theatres is the town's local
theatre in the Winter Gardens complex, and hosts a wide range of plays, films, and concerts.
George Bernard Shaw co-founded the original theatre, in Great Malvern. The Splash Leisure Complex has a swimming pool and gymnasium. The town regularly hosts arts and other festivals in the Winter Gardens which also includes a large concert/banqueting room, bars, cafeterias and a cinema (movie theatre). The Priory Park with its adjoining Malvern Splash pool and Winter Gardens occupies a large area in the centre of the town.
Health
Malvern has a hospital, which dates from the early
20th century, replacing an earlier hospital off Newtown Road. It could be described as a
cottage hospital. Many in-patients are elderly, recuperating before discharge back to their homes. Consultants from
Worcester Royal Hospital hold clinics there. In 2006, the future of this hospital is uncertain. There are plans to build a new hospital for Malvern, but no final decision has been made. The need for a new hospital has been discussed in Parliament. In 2006 a new, modern health complex was opened on the edge of Malvern Link from which most of the town's GPs now operate.
Location
Ordnance Survey . Latitude: N52:06:42, Longitude W002:18:46.
Great Malvern is approximately 13
kilometres (8
miles) south-west of the city of
Worcester, on the eastern slopes of the Malvern Hills. The altitude of the town ranges from about 50 to 200 meters (164 to 656 feet) above
sea level. The
River Severn runs roughly north-south about 6.4 kilometers (4 miles) to the east of the town.
Education
Education is one of the largest fields of employment in Great Malvern, which is home to several private schools, two state
secondary schools, and the adult-education Malvern Hills College. The best-known private schools are
Malvern College and
Malvern St James.
The Chase Technology College is the largest secondary school in the town, with 1,800 pupils.
Dyson Perrins High School, in
Malvern Link, has about 900 students.
Showground
The
Three Counties Showground, a few miles to the south of Malvern on the road to the town of
Upton on Severn (part of the Malvern District), is the venue for the famous
Three Counties Show which while traditionally representing the three counties of
Worcestershire,
Herefordshire and
Gloucestershire, it's one of the country's most important
agricultural shows and events. It also hosts the Spring Gardening Show, and many other events throughout the year.
Fringe Festival
Great Malvern is the home of one of the oldest
Fringe festivals in the world. The main events of the
Malvern Fringe are the
May Day and the annual three day festival held in June as a fringe to the
Elgar Festival. These are accompanied by musical and other live events throughout the year.
History
Great Malvern developed around an
11th-century priory, the remains of which make up much of
Great Malvern Priory, now a large
parish church.
The town remained small until the early
1800s, when the 'taking of the water' in Malvern came into fashion after being first recommended by Dr. Wall in
1756. By the
1820s the Baths and the Pump Room were opened and by the middle of the
19th century, there were many hotels, bath houses, and other establishments catering to the visitor, benefitting from the coming of the railways after the
1850s. The Malvern water became famous for containing "nothing at all".
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, many private boarding schools were established in Great Malvern; two large private secondary schools - one for boys, The Boy's College,
Malvern College, and one for girls, Malvern St James's - now remain and rank among the country's foremost private schools.
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