Malvern Link

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Malvern Link
Malvern Link shown within Worcestershire
District	Malvern Hills
Shire county	Worcestershire
Region	West Midlands
Constituent country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	MALVERN
Postcode district	WR14
Dialling code	01684
Police	West Mercia
Fire	Hereford and Worcester
Ambulance	West Midlands
European Parliament	West Midlands
UK Parliament	Wyre Forest
List of places: UK • England • Worcestershire

Coordinates: 52°08′N 2°18′W / 52.13, -2.3

Malvern Link is an area of Malvern, Worcestershire, England to the north and east of Great Malvern. The centres of Malvern Link and Great Malvern are separated by Malvern Link Common, an area of open land that is statutorily protected by the Malvern Hills Conservators organization.

Malvern Link is home to the famous Morgan Motor Company. One of Malvern's two secondary schools, Dyson Perrins High School, is located in Malvern Link. Dyson Perrins is named after the family made famous by the local product Worcestershire sauce. The area also has several primary schools (such as Somers Park Primary School and St. Matthias C of E Primary School). Malvern Link is served by Malvern Link railway station on the Worcester to Hereford line.

There is a shopping area in the centre of Malvern Link surrounding the crossroads of the Worcester Road, Pickersleigh Avenue and Richmond Road. A mural on the Pickersleigh Road wall of the Victoria pharmacy depicts many of Malvern's landmarks, including the hills, Edward Elgar and Link Stone, which now resides in the churchyard of nearby St Matthias Church. It also contains the so-called 'Malvern Psalm'.

Since the mid 1990s a retail park (the Malvern Hills Retail Park) has sprung up at the bottom end of Malvern Link, with stores including Boots, Matalan, Next and Halfords.

It is thought that "Malvern Link" got its name because the Victorians used to link up more horses to the carriages so that they could be pulled up the hill on the A449, which runs through the centre of Malvern Link to the small urban centre of Link Top at its western end before arriving in the town centre of Great Malvern.^{[citation needed]} At the point where it passes through Malvern Link it is also called Worcester Road, as it leads directly into the centre of the city of Worcester about eight miles to the east.

However, "Malvern Link" may also refer to the slope of the Malvern Hills on which it is situated, from the Middle English "hlinc" meaning a ridge of land, or a hill. (compare with "helling" meaning "slope" in Dutch, and in German the more specialised "slipway"^[1])

Malvern Link is home to many employees of nearby defence company, QinetiQ, the Malvern site being a brisk 45-minute walk away.^{[citation needed]}