Bromsgrove

Bromsgrove, a market-town of Worcestershire, near the small river Salwarp, 12 miles NNE. of Worcester, and $1\backslash frac\{1\}\{2\}$ mile from a station on the Birmingham and Gloucester Railway. Situated in a richly wooded valley, it has a principal street a mile in length, a grammar-school (1553; re-founded 1693), and a fine old church, restored by Sir Gilbert Scott in 1858, with a spire 189 feet high, and monuments of the Talbots. The linen manufacture has been superseded by nail and button making. Pop. (1851) 4426; (1891) 7934.