Malvern Hills

Your first sight of 'The Malverns' tells you that you are approaching an area with a difference – unusual and intriguing. They are the centre piece of a wonderful region stretching from lowland, riverside Upton upon Severn to Malvern itself, and up the River Teme's winding course through northwest Worcestershire's hills to delightful Tenbury Wells.

Perhaps it was the pure water of the Malvern Hills springs that first attracted the Iron Age builders of The British Camp (Herefordshire Beacon), and then, hundreds of years later, the founders of Malvern's two medieval priories. Certainly it was those waters that made Malvern a 19th-century spa, with the elegance to become a place of culture, attracting people like Sir Edward Elgar and George Bernard Shaw. From the hills you will see some of England's grandest views, eastwards towards the Cotswolds, northwards to Shropshire and westward to the misty mountains of Wales.