Salford Priors

Salford Priors is a rural, agricultural village and civil parish about four miles south-west of Alcester, Warwickshire, England. The population of the civil parish as taken at the 2011 census was 1,546. It is on the Warwickshire border with Worcestershire.

The village is eight miles from the popular tourist town of Stratford upon Avon, the birthplace of William Shakespeare and the River Avon runs near to it. Evesham lies seven miles to the south-west and is an important agricultural centre and soft fruit-growing area.

The population of the Salford Priors ward - which includes the communities of Abbot's Salford, Dunnington, Iron Cross, Pitchill, Rushford and Mudwalls was 1,492 according to the 2001 census

The village has a number of areas designated as conservation areas. The village is popular with tourists and photographers especially in the summer when it is full of flowers paid for by Salford Priors Parish Council. The village also recently won Warwickshire Village of the Year, for its services and beauty

Salford Priors Parish Council incorporates the communities of Abbot’s Salford, Cock Bevington, Bevington Waste, Wood Bevington, Dunnington, Iron Cross, Pitchill, Rushford and Salford Priors. The Parish Council's responsibilities include the Playing Field and Play Area, Public Lighting, Amenity, Grass Mowing, Cemetery Maintenance, Parish Floral Displays, and The Best Kept Garden Competition.

Salford Hall in Salford Abbots belonged first to Evesham Abbey, then to Kenilworth Priory, whose history is traceable back to 708, until the Dissolution of the Monasteries after which it became a seat of the Stanford family. It is now a hotel. The village used to be served by Salford Priors railway station, opened in September 1866 on the Gloucester Loop Line between Redditch to Evesham railway station and onto Ashchurch. However the station closed in September 1963 as a result of the Beeching Axe.

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