Worcester questions

I suggest that if travelling by train that you alight at Worcester Foregate Street rather than Worcester Shrub Hill. (You don’t state where you are coming from).

Suggest that you go on Google Maps and find Foregate Street station and then use street view to go south down High Street to the Cathedral to see what to expect. Having done that, find Friar Street and have a look on street view and you will see some Tudor buildings.

See the Visit Worcester website- https://www.visitworcester.co.uk/revisit-worcester/

There is also Royal Worcester Porcelain for instance, Edward Elgar's birthplace (English Composer) and the English Civil War to explore in the City, for instance. Elgar was one of the great English composers. If you're there at the right time of year (late July) you may encounter the Three Choirs Festival which moves between Gloucester, Hereford and Worcester. A great Classical Music Festival

There should still be short River Cruises on the River Severn- used to be Afternoon Tea cruises as well as normal sightseeing ones, though I'm struggling to find a current web site. I'd be surprised if they don't still exist.

Not sure how long you are there for, but there are also hourly buses out to Evesham, there is also great walking in the Malvern Hills.

It is also the other end of the rail line from London which serves Moreton in Marsh. So in the same way as people do day trips from London to the Cotswolds via Moreton in Marsh it is totally viable to do the same from Worcester. Possibly easier in fact. Certainly cheaper- both train fare and hotel costs.

A local resident here. The Cathedral is well worth visiting, with the tombs of King John and Prince Arthur (Henry VIII's elder brother). Be sure to visit the cloisters and the square on the other side. This has a small watergate with a house on top. Through the watergate, there is a pleasant riverside walk. A short walk from the Cathedral are the Porcelain Museum and the Commandery. The former has a superb collection of historic porcelain, while the Commandery has a good display on the Battle of Worcester. The City itself does not have a historic area like York, but there are interesting side streets and it is pleasant to walk along the tree-lined High Street. This continues North and becomes the Foregate, which has several antique shops. Places to visit nearby (in addition to those already mentioned) include Croome Court (National Trust) and some interesting riverside towns (Evesham, Upton and Bewdley). You can take a heritage steam railway journet from Bewdley up to Bridgnorth.

agreeing with those faster out of the blocks than I.

Worcester Cathedral has one of the best rings of bells in the world, and walking through the nearby town or along the river, or just in the College Yard or College Green on a Sunday morning before the major services (or Monday practice) will make your heart sing. A full circle ring of 12, all from John Taylor of Loughborough in 1928 (the extra sharp bell for number 2 is not), and there are ancient display bells around the cloisters and other parts of the cathedral.

The cathedral interior is beautiful and very historic.

The walk along the river is part of the Severn Way, and there is a Cathedral Ferry across the Severn on summer weekends.

The Severn Valley Railway is the heritage steam railway mentioned above from Bewdley to Bridgnorth and it actually starts in Kidderminster a few miles away where it shares a forecourt with the main line railway Kidderminster station. If you have any interest in steam preserved railways, the Severn Valley is genuinely world class.

Worcester Foregate is the better station for that part of town, but if you are at all mobility impaired check before travel that the lift is working - otherwise it is a long steep staircase to the street. Worcester Shrub Hill station has some very interesting signalling mechanisms for those interested in such things (I am, BTW) and is less convenient to where you want to be. Not far from where Worcester Sauce is from.