Pershore

Pershore, a pleasant, old-fashioned market-town of Worcestershire, in a great fruit-growing district, on the Avon, 9 miles SE. of Worcester. Holy Cross, the church of a mitred Benedictine abbey, originally founded in 689, is but a fragment—choir, south transept, and central tower, mainly Decorated in style, but with Norman and Early English features. It was restored by Scott in 1863-65. Pershore has manufactures of stockings and agricultural implements. Pop. (1851) 2717; (1881) 2885; (1891) 2708. See Styles's History of Pershore Abbey Church (1838).