Historic Towns of Worcestershire

An archaeological survey of the historic towns in Worcestershire, Herefordshire and Shropshire was carried out by the Worcestershire Historic Environment and Archaeological Service in 1992-1996. Archaeologists studied all the available sources of information about each town – archaeology, history, buildings, maps, finds – and developed an understanding of what each town looked like in the past. Thirteen historic towns were assessed in Worcestershire. 

Click on the links below to find out about the project or read up on a particular town.

• The Central Marches Historic Town Survey Project  (198 KB)
• Alvechurch (1.1 MB)
• Bewdley and Wribbenhall (2.4 MB)
• Broadway (1.9 MB)
• Bromsgrove
• Clifton-Upon-Teme
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• Droitwich
• Evesham and Bengeworth
• Kidderminster
• Pershore
• Redditch
• Stourport-on-Severn
• Tenbury Wells
• Upton-Upon-Severn.

Online Resources

The original 'Central Marches Historic Town Survey' (CMHTS) assessments for Worcestershire are available online via the Online Archaeology Library. 

Simply type CMHTS into the search engine and it will bring up all the reports.  Remember that these reports were written for management purposes over ten years ago. 

The reports for towns in Worcestershire, Herefordshire and Shropshire are also available online via the Archaeology Data Service website.