Hanley Swan

DistrictShire countyRegionCountryEnglandSovereign stateUnited KingdomPost townWORCESTERPostcode districtWR8PoliceWest MerciaFireHereford and WorcesterAmbulanceWest Midlands UK Parliament 52°05′01″N 2°16′27″W / 52.08351°N 2.27417°W / 52.08351; -2.27417

Hanley Swan is a small village in the English county of Worcestershire. It lies in the Malvern Hills district, between the towns of Malvern (two miles [3.2 km] away) and Upton-upon-Severn (approximately three miles [5 km] away). Together with the nearby village of Hanley Castle, its population is about 1500. The traditional English village centre includes a village green and pond, a pub, a Social Club and a village stores. Hanley Swan won the 2009 Calor Herefordshire and Worcestershire Village of the Year competition, a heat of the national Village of the year competition. Hanley Swan was an inspiration for the setting of the novel Black Swan Green by David Mitchell.^[1]

History

The Church of Our Lady and St Alphonsus was built, shortly after restrictions against Catholic churches were lifted in 1829, by descendants of Thomas Hornyold who had aided Charles II's escape. As elsewhere in Worcestershire, the continuing Catholic connections of the county meant that new Catholic churches were established with greater funding than in many other parts of the country.^[2]

References

External links

• Benefice of Hanley Castle with Hanley Swan and Welland Official web page of the Diocese of Worcester.
• The Hanley Swan & Hanley Castle web site

Sources

• Lloyd, David (1993), A History of Worcestershire, Chichester: Phillimore, ISBN 9780850336580, LCCN 94109314, OCLC 30027275, OL 1140253M