Far Forest Church and Graveyard - geograph

Far Forest is a small village in north

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, England, approximately west of

Bewdley Bewdley ( ) 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, and is west of Kidderminster, north of Worcester and southwest of Birmingham. It ...

, and next to the border with

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. It is on the

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, on the edge of the

Wyre Forest __NOTOC__ Wyre Forest is a large, semi-natural (partially unmanaged) woodland and forest measuring which straddles the borders of Worcestershire and Shropshire, England. Knowles Mill, a former corn mill owned by the National Trust lies wi ...

near

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. Far Forest is in the

Wyre Forest District Wyre Forest is a local government district in Worcestershire, England. It is named after the ancient woodland of Wyre Forest. The largest town is Kidderminster, where the council is based. The district also includes the towns of Stourport-on-S ...

. There is a

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, the Plough Inn, a primary school, a shop with a post office, and two churches: one

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, and one

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, called Holy Trinity Church. The R&B Travel 292 bus service (

Ludlow Ludlow ( ) is a market town and civil parish in Shropshire (district), Shropshire, England. It is located south of Shrewsbury and north of Hereford, on the A49 road (Great Britain), A49 road which bypasses the town. The town is near the conf ...

–Bewdley–

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) provides regular public buses from Monday to Saturday. There is also a primary school called Far Forest Lea Memorial CE Primary School with around 121 students.

Mary Whitehouse Constance Mary Whitehouse (; 13 June 1910 – 23 November 2001) was a British teacher and conservative activist. She campaigned against social liberalism and the mainstream British media, both of which she accused of encouraging a more permis ...

, the conservative media activist, lived with her husband in Far Forest early in the 1970s. She later alleged they were forced to move away after opponent protestors tracked her down and picketed their home.Report by Toby Neal, part of 'Great Lives' series on Midlands worthies, which noted she was reportedly living there in 1970.

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