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Pershore

1911 Encyclopedia Britannica

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a market town in the Evesham parliamentary division of Worcestershire, England, 113 m. W.N.W. of London and 7 S.E. of Worcester by the Great Western railway. Pop. (1901), 3348. The station is IZ m. from the town. Market gardening and fruit-growing (especially plums) are carried on and agricultural implements are manufactured. The churches of the two parishes of Holy Cross and St Andrew face one another across a road. Holy Cross is a remnant of a mitred abbey of Benedictines, said to have been founded about 970 by King Edgar, on the site of a Mercian religious settlement. There remain only the fine Early English choir, with Decorated additions, the Norman south transept and the majestic Decorated tower; while slight fragments of a Norman nave are seen.

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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Pershore'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​bri/​p/pershore.html. 1910.
 
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