WR postcode area WR postcode area The WR postcode area, also known as the Worcester postcode area, is a group of fifteen postcode districts in England, which are subdivisions of seven post towns. These postcode districts cover much of Worcestershire, including Worcester, Broadway, Droitwich, Evesham, Malvern, Pershore and Tenbury Wells, plus very small parts of Herefordshire, Shropshire, Warwickshire and Gloucestershire. The approximate coverage of the postcode districts: ! WR1 ! WR2 ! WR3 ! WR4 ! WR5 ! WR6 ! WR7 ! WR8 ! WR9 ! WR10 ! WR11 ! WR11 ! WR12 ! WR13 ! WR14 ! WR15 ! WR78 ! WR99
Droitwich Spa places, the medicinal benefits were not derived from drinking the spa water, which is almost saturated brine, but from the muscular relief derived from swimming and floating in such a dense, concentrated salt solution, at the town's brine baths (first opened in 1830). The spa water at Droitwich is the warmest in the United Kingdom outside Bath, but it does not meet the most common definition of a hot spring as the water is below standard human body temperature. The original Brine Baths have long since closed, but a new brine bath (part of the Droitwich Spa private hospital) opened