Gardens · West Midlands
County Hall, Worcester
County Hall, Worcester — a garden in england-west-midlands, United Kingdom.
Trevor Rickard — CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons licence
Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 1 h–2.5 h
- Best time of year
- Spring & summer (Apr–Sep)
About
County Hall, Worcester is a garden of interest in england-west-midlands, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.
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From the Wikipedia article
County Hall is a municipal facility at Spetchley Road in Worcester, Worcestershire. It is the headquarters of Worcestershire County Council.
Excerpt from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0. See the source article linked in Sources below.
Background
History
For much of the 20th century the Shire Hall in Foregate Street was the meeting place of Worcestershire County Council. Following the amalgamation of Worcestershire County Council and Herefordshire County Council to form Hereford and Worcester County Council in 1974, the new county leaders decided to procure a purpose-built county hall: the site they selected had been open land just south of Nunnery Wood. Construction of the new building began in 1974. It was designed by Robert Matthew Johnson-Marshall & Partners in the Brutalist style, built by the local contractor, Espley-Tyas, and was officially opened by the Duke of Edinburgh on 4 May 1978. The design for the building, which made…
Sourced from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Coordinates
- 52.1855, -2.1838
- Address
- Spetchley Road, Worcester
- Established
- 1978
Sources
- wikidata: Q66716016 (CC0)
- wikipedia: County Hall, Worcester (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is County Hall, Worcester?
- County Hall, Worcester is in West Midlands, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 52.1855°, -2.1838°.
- When was County Hall, Worcester built?
- County Hall, Worcester dates to 1978.