Alvechurch is a large village of Bromsgrove district, in the north-east of the county of Worcestershire, England. Lying in the valley of the River Arrow, the nearest city is Birmingham.
Alcester (pronounced 'olster' or 'aulster') is an old market town of Roman origin at the junction of the River Alne and River Arrow in Warwickshire, England, and situated approximately eight miles west of Stratford-upon-Avon. The 2001 census recorded a po
The Malvern Hills are a range of hills in the English counties of Worcestershire, Herefordshire and a small area of northern Gloucestershire. It has been designated by the Countryside Agency as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
The Clent Hills lie 15 km southwest of Birmingham city centre in Worcestershire, England. The closest towns are Stourbridge and Halesowen, both in the West Midlands. The range consist of, in order from highest to lowest: Walton Hill, Clent Hill, Wychbury
Sarehole Mill (grid reference SP099818) is a Grade II listed water mill (in an area once called Sarehole) on the River Cole in Hall Green, Birmingham, England. It is now run as a museum by the Birmingham City Council.
n 1896 Mabel Tolkien and her two young sons settled at 5 Gracewell, now 264 Wake Green Road, a cottage in Sarehole village. Though only four miles from the centre of Birmingham Sarehole was then in the north Worcestershire countryside.
When he was three, Tolkien went to England with his mother and brother on what was intended to be a lengthy family visit. His father, however, died in South Africa of rheumatic fever before he could join them.[7] This left the family without an income, so
Tolkien was born on 3 January 1892, in Bloemfontein in the Orange Free State (now Free State Province, South Africa), to Arthur Reuel Tolkien (1857–1896), an English bank manager, and his wife Mabel, née Suffield (1870–1904). Tolkien had one sibling, his
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