Castlemorton

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Coordinates: 52°02′00″N 2°18′00″W / 52.033333°N 2.3°W / 52.033333; -2.3

Castlemorton
Castlemorton church and village.jpg
Castlemorton is located in Worcestershire
Castlemorton

 Castlemorton shown within Worcestershire
District Malvern Hills District
Shire county Worcestershire
Region West Midlands
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town Malvern
Postcode district WR13
Police West Mercia
Fire Hereford and Worcester
Ambulance West Midlands
EU Parliament West Midlands
List of places: UK • England • Worcestershire

Castlemorton is a village and civil parish close to Malvern in the Malvern Hills District in the county of Worcestershire, England.

Castlemorton motte

It consists of a village centre, a large common and many farms and houses within the area. To the south of the village are the earthwork remains of a medieval motte-and-bailey castle.

Castlemorton Common was once part of the vast Royal hunting grounds of the Malvern Chase. James I split up much of this hunting ground (examples are Eastnor Castle Estate, Bromsberrow Estate) and Castlemorton Common is the largest remaining chunk of untouched public land. Much of Castlemorton is today within a designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, and protected as a Site of Specific Scientific Interest (SSSI) due to some very rare fauna and flora living within its boundaries.

The Common was the location of the controversial Castlemorton Common Festival, a week-long free festival and rave held in 1992, that eventually caused new legislation to be introduced to control specific genres of popular music (raves) in public and the use of public spaces[1]. The event made national headlines.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994, Chap.33 Pt. V: Public Order: Collective Trespass or Nuisance on Land. Retrieved 10 June 2009

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