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Castles of Worcestershire - Dudley Castle

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Worcestershire Map

CALDWELL

DUDLEY

DUNSTALL

ELMLEY

HARTLEBURY

HOLT

WEOLEY

WORCESTER

The county of Worcestershire, although once 1974 joined to Herefordshire as the county of Hereford and Worcester, is completely dissimilar to its neighbour to the west. Whereas Herefordshire is a border county and today mostly rural, Worcestershire was always a midlands county and is today in the north quite industrial. The prettiest parts of the county are along the Severn Valley and the border with Herefordshire where the Malvern Hills supplied the greatest English composer, Sir Edward Elgar (born near Worcester), with much of his inspiration.

In the north the towns approach the West Midlands conurbation and include Dudley, Bromswich and Stourbridge, further south is the City of Worcester, plus small towns such as Evesham, Great Malvern and Pershore.

Roy Castle-hunting in Worcestershire

It is also not a county well-endowed with Castles.  The best of these, Dudley, is in a peculiar detached part of the county, surrounded on all sides by Staffordshire (and today in the West Midlands county).

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