Worcester is a city and county town of Worcestershire in the West
Midlands of England. Worcester is situated some 17 miles (27 km) southwest
of the southern suburbs of Birmingham and 23 miles (37 km) north of
Gloucester, and has an approximate population of 100,000 people. The River
Severn runs through the middle of the city, overlooked by the 12th-century
Worcester Cathedral. The site of the final battle of the Civil War, Worcester
was where Oliver Cromwell's New Model Army defeated King Charles II's
Cavaliers, cementing the English Interregnum, the eleven-year period during
which England and Wales
