Droitwich Spa Lt. Col. Patrick Holcroft the Lord Lieutenant of Worcestershire in Victoria Square on 1st June 2014. Collectively known as the Droitwich Canal, two canals met in the town centre. These are the Droitwich Barge Canal built by James Brindley in 1771 and the Droitwich Junction Canal built in 1854. The Junction canal linked Droitwich to the Worcester and Birmingham Canal. The canals were abandoned in 1939 but a restoration program saw them re-opened in 2011. The railway station, formerly on the Great Western Railway, is just outside the town centre with trains to Birmingham, Worcester, Kidderminster and Stourbridge. north-east of
Tenbury Wells mornings, Friday mornings, and Saturday mornings, in and around the town's Round Market building, which was built by James Cranston in 1858. Tenbury was also known as "the town in the orchard" due to the large numbers of fruit orchards of apple trees and also pears, quince and plum trees, in the immediate vicinity of the town. This heritage is revisited every October during the Tenbury Applefest. Tenbury Applefest website. Orchards gay with blossom, <br> Beauty, there to see, <br> Hollows where breeze is tender, <br> Moorlands where wind breaks free; <br> Sowing, Lambing, and Harvest, <br> Overlooked by Giant