Wadborough
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| Hamlet of Wadborough | |
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 Shown within Worcestershire |
| Geography | |
| Status: | Hamlet |
| Region: | West Midlands |
| Admin. County: | Worcestershire |
| Admin. HQ: | Worcester |
| Grid reference: | SO849548 |
Wadborough is a small village 2 miles outside Pershore and 7 miles from Worcester. The village is in Worcestershire, England. The village is an old farming community, with its nearest church a mile away in Pirton.
Wadborough once had a station situated to the west on the Bristol to Birmingham main rail line; the line remains open and high-speed trains regularly thunder through, but the station closed in January 1965.
Wadborough has one public house, the Masons Arms, which is regionally acclaimed. The village has one bus service, the 382, which runs between Pershore and Worcester, once an hour in both directions.
In the 2001 census the parish of Drakes Broughton and Wadborough recorded a population of 1,762. Wadborough itself has approximately 200 inhabitants.
