West Malvern is a village and a civil parish on the west side of the north part of the Malvern Hills at the western edge of Worcestershire, administered by the Malvern Hills District (sector 006), and part of the informally defined area often referred to as the Malverns. The location is given by grid reference SO764465.
Due to its altitude (up to 250m above sea level) West Malvern has panoramic views of the rolling Herefordshire countryside. The village has a church, (St. James, built in 1840 and a primary school (St. James Church of England primary). The church is the site of the grave of Peter Mark Roget - author of Roget's Thesaurus.
Famous quotes containing the words west and/or malvern:
“O native country, repossessed by thee!
For, rather than I’ll to the West return,
I’ll beg of thee first here to have mine urn.
Weak I am grown, and must in short time fall;
Give thou my sacred relics burial.”
—Robert Herrick (1591–1674)
“Ye elms that wave on Malvern Hill
In prime of morn and May,
Recall ye how McClellan’s men
Here stood at bay?”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)