IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Welland, MALVERN, WR13 6NQ

Looking north from close to Welland Village Hall. Garratt Bank is an east-west ridge with a scattering of houses along it. After years of topping up the field just over the road with landfill we now have a useful sports field and small car park on what was the land reserved for the poor of the parish in the 1851 Welland Inclosure Act.

View west of the B4208 near Garratts Bank.

Victorian Village School built on part of the land put aside for recreational use when the common land was enclosed under the 1851 Inclosure Act.

This land at the junction of a stream running from Castlemorton Common and the Merebrook running down from the Malvern Hills was often flooded and may have been a millpond for Welland Mill (some 300m to the east). During the 1990s this land was filled with many lorry loads of soil and rubble.

Farm road to Woodside Farm at Welland. This road is also a footpath.

The footpath to the site of the old Welland Mill is made quite difficult by the dump of material which has taken place over a number of weeks. The burnt material, on the left, appears to come from the Star Inn at Upton-upon-Severn which was subject to an arson attack. http://www.worcesternews.co.uk/news/8851429.Update__Man_arrested_after_pub_blaze/ This may be a legitimate dump of material as it is unlikely that fly tippers would leave a noticeboard bearing the name of the inn. I would prefer that the material didn't make access to the public right of way so awkward.

Looking south east from Perseverance Hill at the flat landscape below.

This is a large three day event that always occurs on the last weekend in July. I arrived at around lunchtime on the last day for a relatively whistle-stop tour. I would have preferred longer but other matters conspired against me. Still, I managed about 4 hours.