Axborough

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Axborough
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Axborough
Location within Worcestershire
OS grid reference SO855794
Civil parish
  • Wolverley & Cookley
District
Shire county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town KIDDERMINSTER
Postcode district DY10
Dialling code 01562
Police West Mercia
Fire Hereford and Worcester
Ambulance West Midlands
List of places
UK
England
Worcestershire
52°24′45″N2°12′51″W / 52.412603°N 2.214174°W / 52.412603; -2.214174

Axborough is a low wooded hill east of Cookley in north Worcestershire, England.

History

Its Saxon name meant hassock grass barrow. This does not imply the existence of a tumulus, as in place names locally the term for them is low. The word beorh refers to a variety of hill.

Axborough lies within an area that was common land until Parliamentary inclosure in the late 18th century. A few houses exist along Axborough lane, but it is largely uninhabited.

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