Places to explore near Worcester

Riverside cathedral above the Severn holding King John's tomb and a fine Norman crypt and chapter house.

0.3 km S

England's longest inland waymarked trail, tracing Charles II's escape route from defeat at Worcester in 1651 to the ship waiting at Shoreham.

0.3 km SW · spans 14 counties

The brick cottage where Edward Elgar was born, now a museum in a quiet garden at Lower Broadheath.

4.3 km W

Berkeley family gardens where the Willmott sisters' peonies still flower each May and June.

4.5 km E

A moated Tudor manor that Waugh made the model for Brideshead Revisited.

8.5 km SW

An open-air pool topped up with natural brine from under the town, salty enough to make you float noticeably higher.

9.7 km NE

A steep little ridge of very old rock rising straight out of the Severn plain, with easy tops and views for miles

9.7 km W

Capability Brown's first landscape and mansion.

10.6 km S

Ancient ridge rising abruptly above the Severn plain.

11.2 km SW

The steep northern peak of the Malvern ridge above Great Malvern, a favourite 360-degree viewpoint.

11.3 km SW

Victorian spa town climbing the flank of the Malvern Hills, laced with springs and old gas lamps.

11.6 km SW · Worcestershire

Spring house of 1813 on the wooded slope above Great Malvern, where Malvern water still runs from a carved spout.

12 km SW

Spectacular ruined mansion with the Perseus fountain.

12.9 km NW

Georgian market town on the Avon crowned by the medieval lantern tower of Pershore Abbey.

13 km SE · Worcestershire

A parish church in Worcestershire.

13.4 km SE

One of Britain's last thatched farm cider houses, cider poured by the jug and drunk in the yard or a lean-to shelter.

13.5 km SE

Tall Victorian clock tower of 1884 standing above the Teme Valley, a landmark on the Worcestershire Way.

15.8 km NW

Honey-coloured limestone villages scattered across rolling sheep country, and paths enough to link them all up

15.9 km SE

The surviving tower and chancel of a Benedictine priory, high on the hills.

16.6 km SW

The Bishops of Worcester's moated palace for over a thousand years, now a county museum.

16.7 km N

Open-air museum of rescued and rebuilt buildings, from a working windmill to a chain-making shop, near Bromsgrove.

16.9 km NE

Isolated outlier of the Cotswolds rising over the Vale, its summit crowned by the folly tower of Parsons Folly, a landmark for miles.

18.2 km SE

Timber-and-thatch village at the foot of Bredon Hill with a wide chestnut-lined main street.

18.9 km SE · Worcestershire

A flight of thirty narrow locks climbing 67m in just over two miles, the longest lock flight in Britain.

20.3 km NE

Drive-through safari park and family attraction beside the Severn near Bewdley.

21 km N

Sixteen-mile heritage steam line following the Severn between Bewdley, Bridgnorth and Kidderminster.

21.4 km N

The most perfect small Georgian town in the county, set on the Severn at the edge of the Wyre Forest.

21.4 km N · Worcestershire

Mock-Norman Georgian castle in the Malverns.

21.4 km SW

Handsome market town below the Malverns, its timber-framed Market House and cobbled Church Lane much photographed.

22.4 km SW · Herefordshire

Great Norman abbey church saved by the town at the Dissolution, with a massive tower and medieval tombs.

22.8 km S

Timber-framed medieval town at the meeting of Severn and Avon, dominated by its great Norman abbey.

22.8 km S · Gloucestershire

A National Trust place in Worcestershire.

0.2 km SE

Britain's longest riverside walk, shadowing the Severn from its peat-hag source on Plynlimon to the docks at Bristol.

0.3 km SW · spans 5 counties

Britain's longest river in its working stretch — locks and lave-net weirs from Stourport down to Gloucester.

0.3 km SW · Worcestershire & Gloucestershire

Down from Birmingham to the Severn at Worcester by fifty-eight locks, thirty of them in the great Tardebigge flight.

0.5 km SE · Worcestershire & West Midlands

A country park in Worcestershire.

2.3 km E

Traditional seventeenth-century village pub just north of Worcester.

4.1 km NW

The salt town's barge and junction canals, derelict for eighty years and reopened as a ring in 2011.

5.1 km N · Worcestershire

Multi-award-winning country pub with its own café, farm shop and campsite.

5.7 km S