Upper Arley (grid reference SO765805) is a village along the Severn Valley near Kidderminster in the Wyre Forest District of Worcestershire, England. At the 2001 census it had a population of 645.
The town boasts a railway station named Arley—on the Severn Valley Railway, one of Britain's preserved steam railways—which has been used in many films and television programmes (including the BBC's Oh, Doctor Beeching!). It also has one pub, a tearoom ...
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Upper Arley (grid reference SO765805) is a village along the Severn Valley near Kidderminster in the Wyre Forest District of Worcestershire, England. At the 2001 census it had a population of 645.
The town boasts a railway station named Arley—on the Severn Valley Railway, one of Britain's preserved steam railways—which has been used in many films and television programmes (including the BBC's Oh, Doctor Beeching!). It also has one pub, a tearoom and a post office with shop, and is an estate village, formerly owned in the 19th century by the Earls of Mountnorris—whose heir, Viscount Valentia, gave his name to the village's second and now defunct pub.
In the late 20th century, it was owned by the philanthropist and iron & steel tycoon Roger Turner, who bought the estate after selling his family's Staffordshire tubemaking businesses, called the Wellington Steel Tube Co. Ltd. There are a number of subtle references or in-jokes to this legacy on the estate—a large redwood tree of the...
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