Alcester
Alcester is a market community and also civil parish of Roman origin at the junction of the River Alne and River Arrowhead in Warwickshire, England, about 8 miles (13 km) west of Stratford-upon-Avon, and 8 miles southern of Redditch, near to the Worcestershire border. The 2011 census tape-recorded a population of 6,273. Today the community features architecture from the Medieval, Tudor, Georgian, Victorian and 20th century. The earliest home seems The Old Malthouse at the corner of Church Road and Malt Mill Lane, which possibly dates from regarding 1500. The clock on St Nicholas Church (Quality 2 *) is in an unusual placement on the south-west corner of the 14th-century tower, making it noticeable from the High Street. The church also houses the tomb of Fulke Greville, grandpa of Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke. The church's Georgian nave with Doric columns and plastered ceiling is believed to have actually been created by Francis Smith of Warwick, supervisor of its reconstruct by Woodward siblings of Chipping Camden in 1729.