Worcester station group Both stations are directly connected by train services and are about three quarters of a mile from each other. Worcester station group The Worcester station group is a station group of two railway stations in Worcester City Centre, England consisting of Foregate Street and Shrub Hill. The station group is printed on national rail tickets as WORCESTER STNS. Worcester Foregate Street is Worcester's most central and most used station, located on Foregate Street. It is served by trains towards Birmingham via Kidderminster or Bromsgrove, Hereford via Malvern, London Paddington via Oxford, Bristol Temple Meads via Gloucester. The station is managed
Worcester precursors of Hwicce and probably the West Saxons who entered the area some time after the 577 Battle of Dyrham. In 680, their fort at Worcester was chosen—in preference to both the much larger Gloucester and the royal court at Winchcombe—to be the seat of a new bishopric, suggesting there was already a well-established and powerful Christian community when the site fell into English hands. The oldest known church was , which was certainly British; the Saxon cathedral was dedicated to St Peter. Worcester appears frequently in the historic records prior to the Viking era, often with reference to the