Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Wyre Forest

Wyre Forest, ry. sta., Worcestershire, on NW. border of co., 3 miles NW. of Bewdley. Wyre Forest forms the southern portion of the Severn Valley coal-field, which stretches from vicinity of Worcester to Newport in Shropshire.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "railway station"   (ADL Feature Type: "railroad features")
Administrative units: Worcestershire AncC
Place: Wyre Forest

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