Pershore is a market town in Worcestershire, England, on the financial institutions of the River Avon. Pershore remains in the Wychavon area and also is part of the West Worcestershire parliamentary constituency. At the 2011 census the population was 7,125. The town is best recognized for Pershore Abbey, Pershore College (now a school of Warwickshire College), as well as the plums and pears grown locally. Pershore is situated on the River Avon, 6 miles west of Evesham and 6 miles east of Upton-upon-Severn in the Vale of Evesham, an area rich in vegetables and fruit manufacturing The town lies near the A44 midway from Worcester to Evesham. The local motorway junctions are junction 7 of the M5 (South Worcester) or junction 1 of the M50. There is a railway station on the Cotswold Line, enabling direct travel to Paddington station, London, through Evesham, Moreton-in-Marsh, Oxford, Didcot and also Reading, although Pershore station is greater than a mile from the centre of the town towards Pinvin.