Kidderminster has operated since 1984 and draws teams from Worcestershire and South Staffordshire. Kidderminster Carolians RFC is a local rugby union club, currently playing in Midlands Division 2 West Northern Section. Kidderminster Hockey club was founded in 1892 and in 2010 there are five men's hockey teams, a ladies team and a junior team. Bewdley is located about 4 miles south-southwest of the centre of Kidderminster Kidderminster Kidderminster is a town in Worcestershire, England, south-west of Birmingham and north of Worcester. At the 2011 census, it had a population of 55,530. The town is twinned with Husum, Germany. The land around
Hugh of Evesham Hugh of Evesham Hugh of Evesham (died 1287) was a 13th-century English churchman, physician and alchemist. Given his name, it is likely that he came from Evesham, Worcestershire. Hugh studied at Oxford University in the 1260s. At some point in his student career he became friends with John Peckham, future Archbishop of Canterbury. According to the manuscript of John Bale's mid-16th century "Index Britanniae Scriptorum" ), he was a Doctor of Medicine and the author of "Quaestiones" on Isaac's "liber febrium." In 1269, Master Hugh of Evesham was one of the professors at Oxford who became drawn into the controversy