Places to explore near Worcester Shrub Hill StationWorcester

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

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

1 km SW

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

3.9 km SE

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

5 km W

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

9 km NE

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

9.1 km SW

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

0.3 km SW · Worcestershire & West Midlands

A National Trust place in Worcestershire.

0.8 km SW

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

1.1 km SW · spans 5 counties

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

1.1 km SW · Worcestershire & Gloucestershire

A country park in Worcestershire.

1.7 km SE

Traditional seventeenth-century village pub just north of Worcester.

4.4 km NW

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

4.9 km N · Worcestershire

A National Trust place in Worcestershire.

5.6 km N