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unusual facts about Chester Road North Ground, Kidderminster



Arabis glabra

Only 35 sites are recorded by Plantlife mostly in Norfolk, (where 100 plants were found at a new site in 1999) but includes 6 sites near Kidderminster in Worcestershire.

Black Ladies Priory

In 1535, just before the Dissolution of the Monasteries the priory drew an income from lands and rents in Chillington and Horsebrook, both in Brewood parish, and in Bradley, Broom, Kidderminster, Albrighton, Dawley, and Tong: these were worth £11 1s.

Brian Turner Tom Lawrence

Lawrence was a former pupil of King Charles I Grammar School, Kidderminster.

Chester Road North Ground, Kidderminster

The Australians won by 65 runs thanks largely to 7-24 from Shelley Nitschke, who became the first Australian woman to take more than five wickets in an ODI.

Chiltern Railways

Chiltern Railways operates services on the Chiltern Main Line from London Marylebone to Aylesbury, Stratford-upon-Avon and Birmingham Snow Hill with some peak-hour services to Kidderminster.

Cleobury Mortimer

Today the nearest railway stations are on the heritage Severn Valley Railway, with the nearest mainline stations at Ludlow and Kidderminster.

Edmund Broughton Barnard

At the 1885 general election he was Liberal candidate in Epping; in 1886 he stood in Maldon and then in Kidderminster at the general election of 1900.

First Midlands

On 24 January 2013 FirstGroup announced that they were selling Kidderminster and Redditch depots to Rotala for £1.5 million.

Justin Tomlinson

Tomlinson was educated at the Harry Cheshire High School (since renamed Baxter College), a state comprehensive school in Kidderminster, Worcestershire in the West Midlands England, followed by Oxford Brookes University in the city of Oxford in Oxfordshire, where he became Chairman of its Conservative Student Branch from 1995-99.

Luke White

Luke White, 2nd Baron Annaly (1829–1888), Liberal MP for Clare 1859–1860, Longford 1861–1862, and Kidderminster 1862–1865,

Percival Brinton

Percival's brother Reginald, also chairman of Brintons, served as Mayor of Kidderminster, and made 13 appearances for Worcestershire.

Squirrels Estate

It is situated approximately two miles south-west of the town centre, bordering onto countryside in the direction of Kidderminster.

Stonehouse Pipe Band

Mrs. Millar’s brother was Alexander Hamilton of Kidderminster who had also gifted a public park to the village of Stonehouse in 1925.

Stourbridge College

Although the main campus is situated in the town of Stourbridge, there are additional campuses in Brierley Hill, Kingswinford, Kidderminster, and Halesowen.

West Midlands English

From Kidderminster and the North Worcestershire area where many, but not all, have a Brummigum twang, and then off down to Ross where there's a hint of the rounded Gloucestershire tones.


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