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Worcestershire is a ceremonial county in the West Midlands of England, covering an area of 1,741 square kilometres. It is bordered by Shropshire, Staffordshire, and the West Midlands to the north, Warwickshire to the east, Gloucestershire to the south, and Herefordshire to the west. Worcester is the largest settlement and the county town.
Worcestershire was constituted as a county around 927, at the time the Kingdom of England was forming. It was organised as an administrative and defensive unit in the early tenth century, structured around the estates of the See of Worcester and the major abbeys of Pershore, Westminster, and Evesham.
Worcestershire Beacon, in the Malvern Hills, is the highest point in the county at 425 metres. The Malvern Hills are designated as a National Landscape and are composed of volcanic igneous and metamorphic rocks, some dating back more than 1,200 million years.
Worcestershire sauce, made by Lea and Perrins, is produced in Worcester and remains the county's most internationally recognised product. The concept of the integrated circuit was invented by Geoffrey Dummer at the Royal Radar Establishment in Malvern in 1952, and liquid crystal displays were developed there in 1972. Morgan sports cars are made in Malvern Link.
Edward Elgar was born in Broadheath, a village about ten kilometres northwest of the city of Worcester. The county has been associated with his legacy ever since.
The BBC bought the Wood Norton site near Evesham in 1939 and equipped it with a dozen temporary studios in case London needed to be evacuated. By 1940, Wood Norton was one of the largest broadcasting centres in Europe, producing an average of 1,300 radio programmes a week. It also hosted linguists who monitored European broadcasts until early 1943, and was prepared as an emergency broadcast centre against the V-weapon threat.