These hills are the highest point in Worcester City. Grazed until the 1950's, a range of habitats has since developed in a small space, with footpaths winding through mature oaks, shady woodland, open grassland and gorse. Elbury Mount houses a covered reservoir.
Access: Pedestrian entrances on Kenwood Avenue, Troutbeck Drive, Elbury Park Road
Site Facilities: Views, benches, interpretation board, play area nearby
Open: Pedestrian access 24hrs
Dogs: Well behaved dogs welcome.
Habitat: Unimproved grassland, Semi-natural grassland, Woodland, Scrub and bramble, Veteran trees
Notable Wildlife: Wood Anemone, Buzzard, Slow worm, Gorse, Hawthorn, Oak
Other features: Views across Worcester and north to Hindlip. The surfaced track from Elbury Park Road gives a gentle climb to the summit of Elbury Mount. Surviving historic features include an Anglo Saxon lynchet bank, veteran Oak trees and remains of a 19th century rifle range.
Site Map
Management tasks include:
- Scrub clearance
- Maintenance of furniture
- Footpath cutting
- Mowing of Unimproved grassland
- Sycamore clearance
- Management of veteran trees
- Venue accessibility
- Parks and Green Spaces
- Park Events
- Park Sites
- Conservation and Wildlife Sites
- Fruit Picking and Foraging Policy
- Trotshill Community Orchard Project
- Lyppard Grange Local Nature Reserve
- Cherry Orchard Local Nature Reserve
- Gorse Hill and Elbury Mount Local Nature Reserve
- Laugherne Brook Local Nature Reserve
- Offerton Lane Local Nature Reserve
- Perry Wood Local Nature Reserve
- Ronkswood Hill Meadows Local Nature Reserve
- Hillwood Meadow
- New Plantation Local Nature Reserve
- Tolladine Wood Local Nature Reserve
- Warndon Wood Local Nature Reserve
- Newtown Green
- Northwick Lido
- Perdiswell Marsh
- Racefield Meadow
- Trotshill Field and Copse
- Play Area Sites
- Parks and Wildlife Sites Volunteers
- Holding your event in a park or green space
- Football Pitches
- Service standards for the management of trees in the city
- Worcester Show
- Find Community Activities and Venues in Worcester
- Sport and Leisure Facilities
- Sport, Art and Play Development
- Tourist Information Centre
- Museums
- Allotments
- Online Library Facility
- Live Event Listings (Worcester Live)
- Public Toilets