Clows Top is a village in north
Worcestershire, England.
There is a village shop/post office, a butcher's, a village hall (named the "Victory Hall") and a mission room. Clows Top lies on the
A456 road
Known as the Hagley Road in Birmingham, the A456 is a main road in England running between Central Birmingham and Woofferton, Shropshire, south of Ludlow. Some sections of the route, for example Edgbaston near Bearwood, are also the route o ...
between
Newnham Bridge and
Bewdley
Bewdley ( pronunciation) is a town and civil parish in the Wyre Forest District in Worcestershire, England on the banks of the River Severn. It is in the Severn Valley west of Kidderminster and southwest of Birmingham. It lies on the River S ...
and on the B4202 between
Mawley Oak and
Abberley
Abberley is a village and civil parish in north west Worcestershire, England.
It is situated on the northern slopes of Abberley Hill, which is tall, between the River Severn and River Teme. The village had a population of 830 in 2001.
Locat ...
.
The border between the districts of Malvern Hills and Wyre Forest runs through the settlement; Clows Top also includes the tripoint of the civil parishes of Mamble, Bayton and Rock.
The summit of the hill reaches an elevation of .
Ordnance Survey
Ordnance Survey (OS) is the national mapping agency for Great Britain. The agency's name indicates its original military purpose (see ordnance and surveying), which was to map Scotland in the wake of the Jacobite rising of 1745. There was ...
mapping
Hunthouse Wood
Hunthouse Wood is a nature reserve of the Worcestershire Wildlife Trust, situated near the villages of Clows Top and Mamble, in Worcestershire, England.
Description
The reserve, area , has been managed by the Trust since 1976; it is made up o ...
, a nature reserve of the
Worcestershire Wildlife Trust
Worcestershire Wildlife Trust is one of 46 wildlife trusts throughout the United Kingdom. It was founded in 1968 to conserve, protect and restore the county's wildlife.
The Trust owns and manages over 70 nature reserves across the county, part ...
, is near the village.
References
Villages in Worcestershire
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