Pebworth Gardens

About Pebworth Gardens

The parish of Pebworth lies in the north-eastern corner of Worcestershire, bordering on the counties of Worcestershire, Gloucestershire and Warwickshire, about seven miles east of Evesham.

Please visit our website www.pebworth.org/pebworth-open-gardens—national-garden-scheme

The focal point of the village is St Peter’s church, which dominates the ridge on which Pebworth is set. The 13th century church has many items of interest – a Jacobean pulpit, a 15th century font, boxed pews and a particularly bitter epitaph to the scalded child of a previous vicar. Our villagers have raised enough money to restore a full peal of bells that now ring out over Pebworth. in 2018 it came 2nd in Worcestershire Best kept Churchyard, thanks to volunteers who spent hours making it look wonderful!

There will be 2 studios open – Rebecca Judge studio in Friday Street and Wendi Weller Art in Maple Barn Studio next to Maple Barn garden. The Messerschmitt Car museum will be open on Front Street.

Friday Street is reputed to have been the haunt of William Shakespeare and certainly many of the thatched and timbered cottages date from his time. Was it here that he is supposed to have written the rhyme about local villages?

‘Piping Pebworth, Dancing Marston
Haunted Hillborough, Hungry Grafton
Dodging Exhall, Papist Wixford
Beggarly Broom and Drunken Bidford’

Horticulture has always played a major part in the economy of Pebworth and nowhere is this more obvious than along Broad Marston Road where there remains evidence of market gardens. Today there are only a handful of families earning their living this way. As market gardens revert back to farmland it is good to see, however, that one of England’s leading Pelargonium specialists Fibrex Nurseries is benefiting the village through local employment and tourism.

At the centre of the village both geographically and socially is the local pub The Masons Arms a meeting place for villagers.

Pebworth has a large village green known as the Close. More than 30 years ago the Parish Council acquired this land from the Shekell estate, thus saving it from development and preserving it for the future.

Pebworth Is multi GOLD award winning village in the Heart of England Britain In Bloom Campaign and finalist in the ‘Best Village Category’.