Lickey End

Lickey End
Worcestershire
A38 Lickey End approaching Junction 1 M42
Location
Location:	52°21’8"N, 2°2’41"W
Data
Population:	2,764
Post town:	Bromsgrove
Postcode:	B61
Dialling code:	01527
Local Government
Council:	Bromsgrove
Parliamentary constituency:	Bromsgrove

Lickey End is a village in Worcestershire, found just north of Bromsgrove, to the southeast of the junction of the A38 Birmingham Road and the M42 motorway. It had a recorded population of 2,764 in 2001.

The Old Birmingham Road goes north out of the village, passing through Marlbrook before ending up at the village of Lickey, of which Lickey End was a hamlet.

Lickey End developed during the early 1990s with the addition of a large modern housing estate.

In popular culture

In Terry Pratchett’s Men at Arms, Gaspode, a talking dog, claims he has so many dog diseases he only survives as they are fighting each other "I've even got Lickey End, and you only get that if you'e a pregnant sheep".

Outside links

("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Lickey End)