A winter walk through Middle Earth and Narnia
It might be overstating reality to claim that the Chronicles of Narnia were conceived in Malvern. Yet, legend has it that a late night walk home from a pub on a snowy Malvern night, inspired C.S. Lewis...
View ArticleOn the sauce in Worcester
A visit to Worcester is a pilgrimage of sorts. Less to visit majestic Worcester Cathedral, which was founded in 680 and occupies a picturesque spot overlooking the River Severn, than to walk down a...
View ArticleA walk through the Malvern Hills
On the surface, Malvern appears to be the quintessential Victorian spa town. Capitalising on the craze for water treatments sweeping Europe ever since the original spa town of Spa became popular with...
View ArticleA winter walk through Middle Earth and Narnia
It might be overstating reality to claim that the Chronicles of Narnia were conceived in Malvern. Yet, legend has it that a late night walk home from a pub on a snowy Malvern night, inspired C.S. Lewis...
View ArticleOn the sauce in Worcester
A visit to Worcester is a pilgrimage of sorts. Less to visit majestic Worcester Cathedral, which was founded in 680 and occupies a picturesque spot overlooking the River Severn, than to walk down a...
View ArticleA walk through the Malvern Hills
On the surface, Malvern appears to be the quintessential Victorian spa town. Capitalising on the craze for water treatments sweeping Europe ever since the original spa town of Spa became popular with...
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A walk to Worcester down the Three Choirs Way of misery
The Malvern Hills are at their most dramatic in the area around the old Victorian spa town of Great Malvern. Head north though, and the hills extend all the way to the River Theme and Ankerdine Hill,...
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Exploring the multiple Malverns: Malvern Wells and Little Malvern
Is Malvern a town with an identity crisis? I’ve been here for a few days now, in that time I’ve discovered six different and distinct places using the name Malvern. Yet on closer inspection, it turns...
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North Hill to British Camp, a walk through the Malvern Hills
The Malvern Hills are the single most striking geographical feature in Worcestershire and Herefordshire, between which they form a natural border. A ten mile long row of steep, jagged hills, rising...
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Flamboyant Victoriana, a walk through historic Great Malvern
Great Malvern, or ‘Malvern’ as it is typically known, is the quintessential Victorian spa town. From Medieval times onwards, the water in Malvern was (and still is by some) regarded as having special...
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Taking ‘the cure’ in Great Malvern
When they weren’t building vast engineering marvels, or sticking flags in bits of land thousands of miles from Britain’s shores and claiming sovereignty over them, the Victorians loved nothing better...
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