Malvern is mostly a spa town in addition to civil parish in Worcestershire, England, controlled by Malvern Town Council. At the time of the 2001 census it features a populace of 28,749, and features the historic settlement and business centre of Great Malvern around the high eastern flank of the Malvern Hills, as well as the former independent urban region of Malvern Link. The majority of the main suburbs and settlements that include the town are divided by large tracts of open common land and fields and, as well as smaller civil parishes adjacent the town council boundaries and the hills, the built up area is usually known to collectively as The Malverns.