s`tər), city (1991 pop...... Click the link for more information. is the county administrative center. Worcestershire is largely hilly country. The Malvern, Cotswold, Clent, and Lickey hills, partially or entirely within the county, are the most important ranges. The area is watered by the Severn and the Avon; the Avon valley is known as the Vale of Evesham.
The county became an administrative unit in 1041 after the recovery of Mercia Mercia (mûr`shə), one of the kingdoms of Anglo-Saxon England, consisting generally of the region of the Midlands.
..... Click the link for more information. from the Danes and was important in the Middle Ages as a monastic center. The northern part of the county, with iron and coal deposits, verges into the industrial Midlands area known as the Black Country Black Country, highly industrialized region, mostly in Staffordshire but partly in Worcestershire and Warwickshire, W central England. It includes the cities of Dudley , Rowley Regis (see Warley ), Tipton, Walsall , Wednesbury, West Bromwich , and Wolverhampton .
..... Click the link for more information. . In 1974, Worcestershire was combined with Herefordshire in the nonmetropolitan county of Hereford and Worcester, but in 1998 the counties were again separated.
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