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Upper Welland Road, MALVERN, WR14 4LA

Upper Welland viewed from on top of the Malvern Hills, beyond the Severn valley Bredon Hill can be seen, along with Dumbleton Hill and Aldterton Hill to the right with the Cotswold escarp as a backdrop.

Looking down through the village. No snow ploughs or gritters have managed to get through today.

The scene is dominated by the snow covered telephone lines radiating out from the post. The large white building was the Hawthorns pub though it has now closed.

Disruption and traffic lights as holes are dug outside each property to feed yellow plastic pipe up the old iron pipes to each house. In the distance are Black hill (left) and Pinnacle Hill (right). For a look down one of the holes see Image

Now closed. The only pub in the village of Upper Welland. Used to be a well renowned restaurant. Built, as were most of the houses in the village, on land that had been part of Lower Assart or Assarts Common. The common land was enclosed after the 1851 Welland Inclosure Act which stipulated how each new field boundary must be planted with hawthorn hedges. It is thought that that is how the Inn got its name.

Houses in Upper Welland on Upper Welland Road.

Viewed from Broad Down on the Malvern Hills. The village has developed from a triangular piece of common land known as Lower Assart before the Welland Inclosure Act of 1851 handed the land over to established land owners of Welland parish. The common land started to have houses with large plots of land built on it. These have continuously been infilled over the last 160 years. The rough land with many evergreen trees is the St Wulstan's Nature Reserve on the site of the hospital built for the expected D-Day casualties in the Second World War. It later became a very successful rehabilitation mental hospital. Shuttlefast Farm is near the top of the picture.

The view down one of the holes (flooded by over 48 hours of December rain). Image A new plastic pipe is inserted into the old iron pipe. For the archaeologist, it is interesting to note how thin the road foundations are.

In this weather the shop is a life saver. Running a little short on many supplies, but someone has made the snowman very proud.

A 12 ft wide "Private Road or Carriage Way" as defined by the Welland Inclosure Act of 1851. still unmade and lit by gas lamps until a year or two ago.