Hadzor
| Hadzor | |
 Hadzor Hall |
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  Hadzor Hadzor shown within Worcestershire | |
| District | Wychavon |
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| Shire county | Worcestershire |
| Region | West Midlands |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Droitwich |
| Postcode district | WR9 |
| Police | West Mercia |
| Fire | Hereford and Worcester |
| Ambulance | West Midlands |
| EU Parliament | West Midlands |
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Hadzor is a small village in Worcestershire, England. There are around fourteen houses and a Roman Catholic church in the village, although there is no shop or school and the Church of England church was closed in the 1970s. Hadzor is part of the Bowbrook Group of Parishes, which includes the neighbouring villages of Sale Green, Oddingley and Hanbury and nearby Huddington, Crowle, Tibberton and Himbleton.
In 2003, a number of new houses were built on the borders of the village by developer Neil Grinnal. These are not granted direct access to the village, and have thus been dubbed 'New Hadzor' or 'the housing estate', not being considered part of the original village. A long campaign was led against this development under the banner 'keep Hadzor special', but failed to prevent around 70 houses being built. As a consequence of the development, however, Hadzor has since been awarded a village green on land formerly belonging to Hadzor Hall, a large hall formerly owned by Neil Grinnal (). The village has had a tumultuous past with residents leading protest campaigns against a tip, a service station and a theme park on land adjacent to the village. Their courage and assertiveness paid off as they won their fights and Hadzor remains a beautiful jewel on Worcestershire's grassy crown.
Hadzor is thought to be the final resting place of Sir Gideon Peyntour, a Medieval knight who, according to local folk-lore was a fugitive, after escaping his sentence at the Tower of London for a minor crime, he is known to have resided around Hadzor and Hanbury. Rumour has it that this knight went into depression and killed himself for unknown reasons in the local wood. Up to this present day, this Knight's screams of pain and the clinks of chain mail armour can can supposedly be heard around the Hadzor area on certain nights.
External links
Media related to Hadzor at Wikimedia Commons