Evesham in the traditional high street and the Riverside Shopping Centre, and Four Pools Lane Retail Park. The Valley (formerly Evesham Country Park), is a large retail and leisure park located out of town with a diversity of stores, restaurants and cafés. In 1728 the London to Worcester road through Evesham was turnpiked as was the Evesham to Alcester road in 1778 improving communications in the area. Evesham is at the junction of the A46 and A44 trunk roads – the £7 million, A46 single-carriageway bypass to the east of the town opened in July 1987 as the A435. The River
Kidderminster Hospital Kidderminster Hospital Kidderminster Hospital is an acute general hospital in Kidderminster in Worcestershire, England. It is managed by the Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust. The hospital has its origins in the Kidderminster Union Workhouse Infirmary which was completed about 1884. The hospital joined the National Health Service as Kidderminster Infirmary and Children's Hospital in 1948. It became Kidderminster and District General Hospital in 1974 and Kidderminster General Hospital in 2000. Standing for Parliament as an Independent Kidderminster Hospital and Health Concern candidate at the 2001 general election, Richard Taylor campaigned largely on a single issue, that of restoring the accident