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Alcester
Alcester is a market community as well as civil parish of Roman beginning at the junction of the River Alne and also River Arrowhead in Warwickshire, England, approximately 8 miles (13 km) west of Stratford-upon-Avon, and also 8 miles south of Redditch, close to the Worcestershire boundary. The 2011 census recorded a population of 6,273. Today the community includes architecture from the Medieval, Tudor, Georgian, Victorian as well as 20th century. The oldest house seems The Old Malthouse at the edge of Church Road and also Malt Mill Lane, which most likely dates from about 1500. The clock on St Nicholas Church (Grade 2 *) remains in an unusual placement on the south-west edge of the 14th-century tower, making it visible from the High Street. The church additionally houses the burial place of Fulke Greville, grandfather of Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke. The church's Georgian nave with Doric columns and plastered ceiling is believed to have been created by Francis Smith of Warwick, supervisor of its rebuild by Woodward brothers of Chipping Camden in 1729.