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Besford
Sign in to saveBesford is a village and civil parish in the Wychavon district of Worcestershire, England. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 147. The village is near Pershore, off the road from Upton-upon-Severn. A historic house, Besford Court (a grade II* listed building), is located in the village. Besford Court was once used as a school known as Besford Court Hospital .
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The entry is geolocated on the map, across 2 mapped points.
Vinony's link graph records 119 inbound references to Besford, and connects out to Ombersley, London and England.
It sits within the topics Villages in Worcestershire and Wychavon.
Vinony links it to 9 Wikipedia language editions.
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Place details
- Locality
- Wychavon
- Region
- England
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 0
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Key facts
- UK place.dial_code
- 01386
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.official_name
- Besford
- UK place.population
- 147
- UK place.static_image_name
- BesfordChurch(PhilipHalling)Aug2005.jpg
- UK place.static_image_width
- 250
- UK place.static_image_caption
- The church of St Peter in Besford is one of the few timber frame churches in England
- UK place.shire_district
- Wychavon
- UK place.shire_county
- Worcestershire
- UK place.region
- West Midlands
- UK place.civil_parish
- Besford
- UK place.postcode_district
- WR8
- UK place.postcode_area
- WR
- UK place.post_town
- WORCESTER
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- SO910448
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- village
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- Wychavon
- Population
- 147
- Area
- 558.63
- Image
- BesfordChurch(PhilipHalling)Aug2005.jpg
- Dialing code
- 01386
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- Commons category
- Besford
- OS grid reference
- SO910448
- P8168
- Freguesia de Pondras
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Further reading
- References
- External links
Besford is a village and civil parish in the Wychavon district of Worcestershire, England. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 147. The village is near Pershore, off the road from Upton-upon-Severn. A historic house, Besford Court (a grade II* listed building), is located in the village. Besford Court was once used as a school known as Besford Court Hospital The name Besford derives from the Old English Bettisford meaning 'Betti's ford'.
The village is reputedly haunted by the ghost of a member of the Seabright family, who appears in a nightshirt.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Besford” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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