Fladbury is a traditional English village located in rural Worcestershire, England.

A Beaker settlement was discovered in the centre of Fladbury during excavations into Saxon occupation.

[2] There are the remains of a Roman polyfocal farmstead settlement with prehistoric origins on the site of the current Spring Hill Farm.

The local soil is mostly light clay with a little sand; the subsoil is Lower Lias This made the area good farming land producing crops of wheat, beans, barley, hops, market garden produce and fruit.

Fladbury was a settlement mentioned in Domesday Book, in the hundred of Oswaldslow and the county of Worcestershire.

The disafforestation of the Horewell Forest, which formerly covered part of the parish of Fladbury, took place in 1229.

During World War II American soldiers were based on the golf course and the recreation ground.

John Champion, put a night time silence on the chiming of the church clock because it disturbed his wife's sleep.

Some villagers objected to his actions and he held a mini referendum to determine if the clock should chime at night.

It has been a site of Christian worship since monks settled here in 691AD when Ethelred, King of Mercia, made a grant of land to Oftfor the then Bishop of Worcester.

On 14 May 1448, Eleanor, wife of Sir John Throckmorton and her son, Thomas, obtained licence to found the parish church.

The family of Worcester architect, Frederick Preedy, lived in Fladbury and there is much of his work in the church.

There are several stained-glass memorial windows, one representing the coats of arms of seven knights slain at the battle of Evesham in 1265.

[6] Fladbury is part of the Five Alive Parish which embraces Cropthorne, Charlton, Wyre Piddle and Lower Moor.

It was built in 1897 to commemorate the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria for her fiftieth year of her reign.

Fladbury was the first village in England to have electric street lighting, although Brockley in Gloucestershire makes the same claim.

The street lights were made by Messrs. Fisher Humphries and Co. Ltd., a firm of agricultural engineers at Atlas Works, Pershore.

More recent living accommodation was built probably in the 18th century was added to the much older working original Mill.

The event normally includes market stalls, live music, classic cars, children's activities, boat trips and refreshments, together with a Fun Run on the following Sunday.

[9] Fladbury held its first annual music festival to celebrate local bands on 26 April 2024.

Members disillusioned with the WI, and faced with closure of local meetings, decided to form their own club.

The existing playing field (4.628 acres) was purchased by Fladbury Parish Council for £600 in November 1951.

Birmingham Anglers Association, have fishing rights on the River Avon in the village between Jubilee Bridge and Fladbury Mill.

The club is situated on the banks of the River Avon and has 18 holes played over nine greens.

His painting, 'Two Girls with Parasols at Fladbury',[15] is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.