The best city hikes and walks around Malvern

a great little play ground, needs some swings

Excellent spot for breakfast or a coffee and cake pit stop!

Great refueling stop.

lovely coffe shop opposite. cheesecake highly recommended 👌

in the opening scene of the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe heroine Lucy meets faun M Tumnus under a gas lamp in a snowy woodland. This bench commemorates this.

A bandstand, dating from the early-C20 of cast iron and timber construction, with a lead-covered roof and standing on a brick plinth. The building is octagonal in plan. The building has a blue brick plinth of c.1983 with a stone coping to the edges, which appears earlier in date and may be original. Above this are eight, cast-iron columns, which rise to foliate capitals. The spandrels and cornice are of filigree iron. Below is a balustrade, also of cast-iron panels, with gates to the west side above a set of steps. The roof is ridged to the corners and has an ogee shape to its lower body, rising to metal grilles. Above this is metal cresting and the roof sweeps up to a spike and ball finial. There is a wooden ceiling with moulded ribs and a central boss with gilded star. Many of the blue bricks which form the new base have incised initials and names of organisations, presumably of donors who helped to pay for the removal of the building. A brick, dated `1983', is set at the centre of a tread on the staircase on the western side. An early C-20 bandstand which originally stood in Priory Park, Great Malvern. It was listed in 1979 in Victoria Park, Malvern Link but was removed from that park to its original setting in Priory Park, c.1983. The Bandstand, Priory Park, Great Malvern is designated at Grade II for the following principal reasons that the building is a good example of a decorative, cast iron structure of the early C20. Despite the loss of the original brick plinth the bandstand is still notably intact. The commemorative nature of the present plinth with initialled bricks to mark the donors adds interest.

Priory Park is a large Victorian park close to the town centre of Malvern. It consists of an ornate bandstand, Waterfowl Lake, enclosed children’s play area and a members bowling green.

Originally centred around an 11th-century Benedictine priory, Great Malvern grew to prominence as part of the spa town of Malvern. The Georgians had a penchant for taking to the waters and the region’s popularity increased during Victorian times, when Doctors Gully and Watson introduced hydrotherapy. It became a cultural centre in the 20th century, with Edward Elgar and George Bernard Shaw bringing music and theatre festivals to the town. Its long-established hospitality venues today benefit from this heritage and from the beauty of the surrounding countryside. The modern-day town is full of independent shops and cafes, perfect for a mooch. From the train station, there are direct trains to Birmingham New Street, Bristol Temple Meads and London Paddington. The Malvern Hills are a delight to explore. They are easily one of England’s most scenic upland regions, certainly the finest in the Midlands. Worcestershire Beacon, at 1,394 feet (425 m), is the highest point in the county and, along with neighbouring North Hill, dominates the west of the town.