Bromsgrove
Bromsgrove is a town in north west Worcestershire, part of the West Midlands in England. It has a population of 88,000.
The name Bromsgrove derives from the Old English Brommsgraf, meaning a small wood frequented by highway robbers.
Bromsgrove was a market town and had a thriving nail making industry from the 16th to 19th centuries. Currently it is a dormitory town for Birmingham with few places of interest. The fish and chip shop above which Lord Lucan was rumoured to have hidden in during the late 1970s has been demolished.
Author Alfred Edward Housman was born in Bromsgrove in 1859.
Bromsgrove's MP is Julie Kirkbride (Conservative).
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Literatur
- Bromsgrove (Images of England) - ISBN 0752411462
- Glory Gone: The Story of Nailing in Bromsgrove - ISBN 0951352512
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A38 road | District (England) | Districts of England | Fifty-Third Parliament of the United Kingdom | Julie Kirkbride | List of English districts by population | List of places by Jedis | List of towns in England | M42 motorway | M5 motorway | MPs elected in British Elections 2001 | MPs elected in the UK general election, 2001 | Redditch | Redditch, England | Worcestershire
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