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Worcestershire town, 10 miles SE of Kidderminster.
Mrs. Henry Wood (1814-1887) described the town as Prior's Ash in her novel The shadow of Ashlydyat (1863).
Perry Hall, on the Kidderminster Road, was the home of the Housman family from 1860 to 1873. Alfred, known as A.E. Housman, (1859-1936) was born the year before at Fockbury. His younger brother Laurence Housman (1865-1959), novelist and dramatist, was born at Bromsgrove.
Geoffrey Hill (1932- ) was born at Bromsgrove in 1932 and lived here until he was 18 when he went on to Oxford University.
Location map of Bromsgrove courtesy of Streetmap.co.uk
Page created 1 October 2002 and last updated
8 October 2002
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