If you are looking for professional jewellers in or around Worcestershire,
F. Hinds could be your choice!
You can visit one F. Hinds shop in Worcestershire:
Our staff are looking forward to seeing you at your next visit to one of our stores.
Something about Worcestershire
Worcestershire takes its name from Worcester, once 'Roman town of the Weogora tribe'. Weogara may be derived from a Celtic river-name, meaning 'winding river'.
From earliest times Worcester was important as a crossing of the Severn and it provided on of the routes into Wales.
Famous for
Worcestershire Sauce was originally created by Sir Marcus Sandys upon his return from India and made for him by his local Worcester grocers, Lea and Perrins. It was first sold commercially in 1838.
The church at Great Witley brings the Italian baroque to rural Worcestershire - it is the most elaborate baroque church in Britain, created in the 1750s by Lord Foley, whose wealth came from making nails. It sits next door to the immense and ostentatious ruins of Witley Court, built with another industrial fortune by the Earl of Dudley.
Evesham Abbey was founded in the 8th century by Egwin, Bishop of Worcester. One story goes that before travelling to Rome to see the Pope, he had his legs manacled and the key thrown into the river Avon, which flows through Evesham. The key then reappeared in a fish he was served in Rome. On his return he founded Evesham Abbey, one of the greatest in Britain, the bell tower of which remains.
Famous people
Sir Roland Hill, creator of the Penny Post, born Kidderminster, 1795.
Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, politician, Prime Minister (1923-4, 1924-9, 1935-7), born Bewdley, 1867.
Sir John Vane, pharmacologist and Nobel laureate, born Tardebigge, 1927.
Geoffrey Hill, poet, born Bromsgrove, 1932.
Nicola James (Jim) Capaldi, drummer, songwriter, member of Traffic, born Evesham, 1944.