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Kidderminster Leasing
Did You Know?Kidderminster is a town in Worcestershire, England, 17 miles south-west of Birmingham and 15 miles north of Worcester. At the 2011 census, it had a population of 55,530. The town is twinned with Husum, Germany. The town is best known for its manufacture of carpets from about 1735, though this has been much reduced recently. The carpet industry developed as a diversification within a well established cloth industry. The earliest written form of the name Kidderminster is in Domesday Book of 1086 when it was called Chideminstre. It was a large manor held by King William with 16 outlying settlements. The place name indicates a much earlier existence. ‘Minster’ is a Saxon word for a monastery or large church. Scholars now believe that a charter of the year 736, whereby King Aethelbald of Mercia granted land for the creation of a monastery, referred to the Kidderminster area. Peter Collins, former Formula One driver was born in Kidderminster on 6 November 1931. During his career Collins drove for the HWM, Vanwall, Maserati and Ferrari teams and won 3 of his 33 Grands Prix. Tragically his promising career was cut short during the 1958 German Grand Prix, when Collins spun off the track and sustained a fatal head injury in the accident that followed. Richard Baxter was Kidderminster’s most famous citizen. For two decades during Cromwell’s interregnum he was preacher at St Mary’s church. After the restoration of Charles I Baxter was forced out of Kidderminster and reluctantly pushed into the position of a nonconformist. Kidderminster has two Commissioners' churches. The first was St. George's church, on Radford Avenue. This was designed by Francis Goodwin and built in 1821–1824, finally being consecrated in April 1824. It had the third largest grant by the Commission, of just over £17,000.00, of any church outside London.
THE KIDDERMINSTER CAR LEASING SPECIALIST Smart Lease is a trading name of Leaseline Vehicle Management Ltd. We reserve the right to withdraw any offer, service or price without notice. Errors and omissions excepted. |
