Malvern

Malvern, GREAT, one of the most fashionable watering-places in England, is situated 9 miles SW. of Worcester, and 129 WNW. of London, on the east side of the Malvern Hills, at the foot of the Worcestershire Beacon, from the summit of which (1444 feet above the sea-level) extensive views are obtained. It is irregularly laid out, and has a fine cruciform church, with a square embattled tower 124 feet high rising from the centre, rebuilt in the reign of Henry VII., and restored in 1860-1. In the centre of the town are large Assembly Rooms (1884) with winter promenade and gardens, and on the outskirts is Malvern College, a handsome building in the Gothic style of the early Decorated period, erected in 1863-65: the present number of boys is nearly 250, and there are several entrance scholarships, tenable during residence, of from £87 to £30 a year, and a leaving scholarship of £50 for three years, tenable at Oxford or Cambridge. Madame Goldschmidt (Jenny Lind) resided near Malvern for many years previous to her death. Pop. (1801) 819; (1891) 6107. See Blackwood's Magazine for August 1884.