1 Chance find of George III halfpenny in the back garden of a house in Evesham Street. The top soil was reported to have come from Newport Drive in 1967/8.
The chance find of a George III coin in Alcester
1 A 19th century drain and layers containing 19th and 20th century pottery were recorded during the excavation of three test pits. A sandstone layer appeared to be beneath the ...
A 19th century drain and layers containing 19th and 20th century pottery were recorded during the excavation of 3 test pits. A sandstone layer beneath the 19th century footings of the existing building may have represented the remains of an earlier building. The site was located at 4 Meeting Lane, Alcester.
1 A brick-built well and wall foundations of 19th century date were recored during archaeoloigicla observation and evaluation work associated with the construction of new houses.
A brick-built well and wall foundations of 19th cenutry date were recorded during archaeological observation and evaluation work at 4-6 Evesham Street, Alcester.
1 The present bridge, of three arches in red brick with stone dressings and modern parapets, may well have been built in 1814.
2 Photographed in 1978.
Gunnings Bridge, a bridge which was built of red brick with stone dressing during the Imperial period, possibly in 1814. It is situated on Henley Street, Alcester.
1 A spring catchment tank. Late C19 square chamber in engineering bricks, roofed with sloping concrete slabs. Built to catch spring water which was then piped to Alcester waterworks pumping ...
A water storage site used to catch water from a spring which was then pumped to a pumping station in Arrow. It was used during the Imperial period and was situated 200m south west of Oversley Mill.
1 In the C19 some sort of industrial activity took place on this site. This entailed at least two large barrels being set in the ground to their full depth, ...
A possible industrial site dating from the Imperial period. The site comprised a well and two barrels that were set into the ground, which were found during an excavation. The site is located to the west of Bleachfield Street, Alcester.
1 A probable RB well was cleaned ouit and reused in the Imperial period, probably to supply the almshouses.
A well, probably dating from the RB period, had been re-used, probably during the Imperial period.
1 Collection of artefacts from different periods found by metal detectorists at the Cherry Trees Motel site, SP095572.
See MWA 3970, MWA3971, MWA10169, MWA5932, MWA3972
Assorted finds from Alcester bypass, Area 1.
1 A collection of artefacts comprising musket balls, buttons of the 19th century and buckle fragment of the 19th century reported by metal detectorists. ...
Find spot - various 19th Century finds were made in the area east of the Alcester bypass.
1 Early 20th century ring found in June/July 1989, Alcester bypass, area 3. See map in Finds file.
2 Further finds.
Findspot - various 19th century finds were recovered from the area of the Alcester bypass.
Collection of artefacts comprising fishing line weight, copper alloy buttons, spoon handle, weight, thimble and Indian figurine of Deity reported by metal detectorists. (See map in FI file ...
Find spot - various finds dating from the 18th and 19th Centuries were found 500m south west of Oversley Green.
1 Although the watercourses are marked on mid C18 maps, no mill buildings are shown; they were probably remnants of a corn mill which had become disused many years before. ...
King's Coughton Mill, a water-powered mill used during the Imperial period for grinding corn and later as a needle mill. It is situated 500m north east of King's Coughton.
1 Turnpike road established between 1750 and 1775 as part of the Evesham network.
Part of a toll road running from Alcester to Evesham, whose upkeep was paid for by extracting a toll from travellers. It was constructed during the Imperial period.
1 A turnpike road established between 1750 and 1775, part of the Alcester/ Evesham network.
2The road from Alcester to Feckenham was turnpiked in 1753-4.
The site of a toll road dating to the Imperial period and which ran from Stratford to Bradley Brook, via Alcester.
1 2A turnpike road established between 1750 and 1775, part of the Alcester/ Evesham network.
The site of a toll road. During the Imperial period, travellers had to pay to use the road. It ran from Alcester to Lickey and Bromsgrove.
2 Possible linear features show on aerial photographs. In places this boundary is doubled.
3 An old racecourse is recorded in this area.
A racecourse dating to the Imperial period is visible on aerial photographs. It was situated 1km west of Alcester Lodge.
1 A Particular Baptist church was in existence at Alcester in 1655. A meeting house was registered in 1737 and enlarged in 1817. A new chapel contiguous with the last ...
A Nonconformist chapel of Post Medieval and later date which is situated on Meeting House Lane, Alcester.
1 Alcester Poor Law Union was formed on 31st May 1836. The Alcester Union workhouse was built in 1837 at site to the east of Alcester on the south side ...
The Alcester Union workhouse was built in 1837 at site to the east of Alcester on the south side of Kinwarton Road. It followed the popular cruciform or "square" layout. A small infirmary block was added at the east of the site, and was extended southwards in 1879. The former workhouse later became Alcester Hospital, and the later infirmary block is still in use. The main buildings, now known as Oversley House, were converted to residential use in 1984.
1 The date of the founding of the original brewery is unknown but it appears to have been in the mid 19th century.
The Haines family are known to have ...
19th century brewery located off Church Street, Alcester.
1 Quaker meeting house with earliest evidence from Saville recording a meeting house in 1677. The Quarter Sessions record a meeting house in 1701. A deed of 1727 ...
Early 18th century Friends (Quakers) meeting house with graveyard. Located 40m southeast of the High Street in Alcester.
1 Items found in the area of Beauchamp Court in, or before, 1990. The exact locations are not known and the method of recovery was not recorded.
Items from the Imperial period found in the area of Beauchamp Court. The exact location is not known.
1 A 19th century pitchback waterwheel 5.7m diameter by 0.7m wide which was part of a pumping station lifting water from a well and bore hole on the site to ...
Alcester pump house which was in use during the Imperial period. It was used to pump water to a reservoir on Grunt Hill. The water wheel is still visible but the parts of the pump house are not. It was situated 200m north of the church at Arrow.
1 Large factory c.1880 representing last phase of needle manufacture in the Alcester/Studley area. A building of three storeys, 20 by 5 bay, red brick structure. Has tall ...
Minerva Needle Works, a factory where needles were manufactured during the Imperial period. It was situated in the area of Priory Road, Alcester.
