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Abberley is a parish in rural West Worcestershire situated within the Malvern Hills District Council boundaries. It is an approximate rectangle, 6 miles long and up to a mile wide. The ridge of Abberley Hill forms the long eastern boundary.
Abberley Hill is formed of an overturned thrust fold of Silurian rocks capped with a breccia of Permian age. On the west side of the hill, the sandstones, clays and coal seams of The Wyre Forest coalfield provided employment in extraction of coal from the Middle Ages until the late 1920s and clay for making bricks and tiles from at least the late fifteenth century until the middle of the twentieth century. At the east end of the parish, the underlying clays and sandstones are of Devonian age.
The settlement pattern of Abberley like many parishes in Worcester dates from at least Saxon times and is and remains a dispersed one with houses grouped around farmsteads or greens, Town Farm and Elms Green attest to this style of settlement. Recent local history projects have identified evidence of both pre-historic people and Romans living in the area as well as continuous occupation from the Medieval period to the present day. Farming remains the dominant land use, orchards are far less plentiful than they had been but hops are now being grown again.
Within the parish, a hunting lodge and its associated deer park were given to a favourite of the William the Conqueror after the Battle of Hastings but at times reverted to the Crown, the last hereditary owners, the Bromleys, sold the estate in 1836. Abberley Lodge was demolished and a new house named Abberley Hall was built by the Moilliets, a Birmingham banking family, the estate was later owned by John Joseph Jones, an Oldham industrialist and banker. After 1910, the Jones heirs chose not to live in Abberley and from 1912, the building has housed Abberley Hall preparatory school. Former pupils include a number of MPs including Geoffrey Howe, later Lord Abaravon and Philip Dunne the sitting MP for South Shropshire. Abberley’s other grand house, The Elms was owned by the Sir Richard and Lady Brooke from 1926 until 1946.
Abberley has had a village school since 1717, the school has occupied its current building since 1859. Abberley Post Office was run from rooms in private houses until moving into the Village Stores, Abberley’s remaining village shop, in the twenty first century. The Manor Arms, the remaining pub, was originally called the Bromley Arms. Abberley retains two Church of England churches, but did also have a Methodist Chapel. Owen’s Garage continues to provide a car repair business, but no longer sells fuel or operates the local bus service as it did in the twentieth century.
Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 (U64407 Wynniatts Way, Abberley) (Temporary Closure) Order 2026 Order made: to close that part of U64407 Wynniatts Way from its junction with A443 The Common […]
PUBLIC NOTICE Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 (U64407 Wynniatts Way, Abberley) (Temporary Closure) Order 2026 Proposed Order: to close that part of U64407 Wynniatts Way from its junction with A443 […]
WORCESTERSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL PUBLIC NOTICE Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 (As Amended) (Footpaths AY-577, Abberley & AD-523, Astley & Dunley) (Temporary Closure Order) 2026 Order made: to close the entire […]
WORCESTERSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL PUBLIC NOTICE Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 (C2276 & C2071 The Village, Abberley) (Temporary Closure) Order 2026 Order made: to close that part of 1: C2276 The […]
PUBLIC NOTICE Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 (B4202 Clows Top Road, Abberley) (Temporary Closure) Order 2026 Order made: to close that part of B4202 Clows Top Rd from its junction […]
PUBLIC NOTICE Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 (C2276 & C2071 The Village, Abberley) (Temporary Closure) Order 2026 Proposed Order: to close that part of 1: C2276 The Village from its […]
Martley and Tenbury Safer Neighbourhood Officer PC Jones attended Abberley Primary School today with a Traffic Enforcement Officer from Malvern District Council. After numerous reports of issues with parking dangerously […]
Felling and coppicing work will take place in the woodland area at Apostles Meadow. From Tuesday 13th to Friday 16th January 2026. The felling contractor will close any paths or […]
PUBLIC NOTICE Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 (B4202 Clows Top Road, Abberley) (Temporary Closure) Order 2026 Proposed Order: to close that part of B4202 Clows Top Rd from its junction […]