Barnards Green
| Barnards Green | |
| Worcestershire | |
|---|---|
 New pedestrian crossing, Barnards Green | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SO788456 |
| Location: | 52°6’31"N, 2°18’39"W |
| Data | |
| Post town: | Malvern |
| Postcode: | WR14 |
| Dialling code: | 01684 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Malvern Hills |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
West Worcestershire |
Barnards Green is one of the main population areas of Malvern, Worcestershire, found a mile east and downhill from Great Malvern, the town's traditional centre.
At the centre of Barnard's Green is a pear-shaped roundabout where the Barnards Green Road, B4211 / B4208 from the town centre, Pickersleigh Road (B4208), Upper Chase Road, Barnards Green Road (which forks to become Poolbrook Road (B4208) and Guarlford Road (B4211), Court Road, and Avenue Road all meet. Barnards Green is a short walk away from the Great Malvern railway station, a listed Victorian building.
History
As with the rest of Malvern, Barnards Green owes much of its development to the area's rapid expansion from a cluster of hamlets and manors to a busy spa town during the mid-19th century. Barnards Green experienced a further population boost in 1942 when the Telecommunications Research Establishment relocated to Malvern to occupy a site having two of its main entrances in the Barnards Green area.[1] In the early 1950s the construction of the large Pound Bank council estate led to an increase in the population, and to the commercial activity in the shopping centre. Population figures for Barnards Green as an area are not recorded separately.
About the village
The centre of Barnard's Green is marked by the Twelve Apostles Island, a pear-shaped traffic roundabout in the central shopping area with its Art Deco style memorial bus shelter, and the nearby Hand of Peace sculpture in Portland stone by artist Rose Garrard.[2] while several large housing developments around the main shopping area such as Pound Bank, are referred to by more local names. Almost every kind of urban commerce is represented in the immediate area of the island by around 60 shops and offices, including a butcher, bakery, patisserie, Post Office, café, locksmith, DIY store, convenience stores, a supermarket, a small industrial complex, retirement homes, a guest house, law offices, and a variety of snack bars, and traditional and ethnic take-aways.
Sport and leisure
- Football: Malvern Town Football Club's ground is located approximately half a mile from the traffic island, in Langland Avenue with Barnards Green Cricket Club being a short distance away in North End Lane. A basketball facility constructed in 2021 lies partway between Barnards Green and Malvern Link.
Outside links
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References
- ↑ TRE History: Penley Radar Archives
- ↑ Nikolaus Pevsner: The Buildings of England: Worcestershire, 1968; 2007 Penguin Books ISBN 978-0-300-11298-6page 483
- Hill, Don; Jones, Eric; Lomas, Janet; Mayner, Peter; McCulloch, Rosemary; Skinner, Michael: 'The Guarlford Story' (Guarlford History Group, 2005) page 158, ISBN 0-9550498-0-6
- Hastings, G. W. (1911). The Story of Malvern. Cornish Brothers Ltd..
- Iles, Brian (2005). The Malverns: Images of England. Tempus Publishing Ltd.. ISBN 0-7524-3667-8.
- Weaver, Cora; Osborne, Bruce (1994). Aquae Malvernensis: a history and topography of the springs, spouts, fountains and wells of the Malverns and the development of a public water supply. Malvern: Cora Weaver.