Hallow, Worcestershire

Hallow is a village and civil parish beside the River Severn, about 2 miles (3.2 km) north-west of Worcester in Worcestershire.

[5] By the middle of the 11th century Worcester Priory had fishponds at Hallow and in 1256 permission was granted for a warren as well.

[5] The Domesday Book of 1086 records that Hallow had two mills for grinding grain;[5] presumably watermills on the River Severn.

[5] Queen Elizabeth I came to hunt deer with bow and arrow at Hallow Park on 18 August 1575.

[12] Colonel William Careless, who preserved the life of Charles II by hiding him in the Royal Oak (1651), was resident in Hallow during the 1680s.

The manufacturer and philanthropist William Morris (1877–1963), the future Viscount Nuffield, was born in Hallow and baptised at SS Philip and James.

The distinguished physician Sir Charles Bell (1774–1842) died in Hallow en route from Edinburgh to London and is buried in the churchyard.

The hand axe discovered in 1970s in Hallow. Potentially the first Early Middle Palaeolithic artefact from the West Midlands.