Callow End is a constituent village of the

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authorit ...

Powick Powick is a village and civil parish in the Malvern Hills district of Worcestershire, England, located two miles south of the city of Worcester and four miles north of Great Malvern. The parish includes the village of Callow End and the hamlet ...

in the

Malvern Hills District Malvern Hills is a local government district in Worcestershire, England. Its council is based in the town of Malvern, and its area covers most of the western half of the county, including the outlying towns of Tenbury Wells and Upton-upon-Sev ...

Worcestershire Worcestershire ( , ; written abbreviation: Worcs) is a county in the West Midlands of England. The area that is now Worcestershire was absorbed into the unified Kingdom of England in 927, at which time it was constituted as a county (see H ...

, England. It is located on the B4424 road about to the south of its junction with the main

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Malvern to Worcester road. The

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runs down the eastern side of the village. The village school, Callow End Church of England Primary School, is part of the Diocese of Worcester Multi Academy Trust. There are two pubs in the village, The Old Bush and The Bluebell. A popular walking spot is next to the village, namely The

Old Hills The Old Hills are an area of common land in Worcestershire, England. They are located around two miles to the east of Great Malvern and about a mile west of the River Severn near the village of Callow End. They reach a height of 65 metres (consi ...

. Callow End Court is a Grade II listed French-style 19th century country house, located to the west of the village. The church of St James was built in 1888 by the sixth

Earl Beauchamp Earl Beauchamp () was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. The peerage was created in 1815 for William Lygon, 1st Baron Beauchamp, along with the subsidiary title Viscount Elmley, in the County of Worcester. He had already been creat ...

as a secondary chapel within the parish of Powick. The war memorial, next to the Callow End Club, is a Grade II listed monument, in the form of a hooded Portland stone cross. Callow End is the former home of

Stanbrook Abbey Stanbrook Abbey is a Catholic contemplative Benedictine women's monastery with the status of an abbey, located at Wass, North Yorkshire, England. The community was founded in 1625 at Cambrai in Flanders (then part of the Spanish Netherlands ...

, a Benedictine convent that opened in 1838, and had a chapel added in 1871. The building is now a hotel. Wheatfield Park is a residential park home estate to the north of the village. It was built in the grounds of the former Wheatfield Court manor house, which was left a ruin after a fire in 2004.

Notable people

* Adam Barry (born 1981), English folk musician * Eliot Bromley-Martin (1866-1946), cricketer born at St Cloud, Callow End (now the Severn Heights Nursing Home, Old Hills) * Granville Bromley-Martin (1875-1941), cricketer born at St Cloud, Callow End *

Rosemary Hawley Jarman Rosemary Hawley Jarman (27 April 1935 – 17 March 2015) was an English novelist and writer of short stories. Her first novel in 1971 shed light on King Richard III of England. Life Jarman was born in Worcester. She was educated first at Saint M ...

(1935-2015), author, lived in Orchard Way, Callow End until 1986'Bestselling Worcester writer who defended Richard III's reputation has died'
in ''Worcester News'', 5 May, 2015 *

Jonathan Wilks Jonathan Paul (Jon) Wilks (born 30 September 1967) is a British diplomat who was the Ambassador to Iraq from 2017 to 2019, Ambassador to Oman from 2014 to 2017 and Ambassador to Yemen from 2010 to 2011. Career Wilks was born at Callow End, Wor ...

(born 1967), British diplomat

External links

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References

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