279 listed buildings, 9 of them Grade II*

Beales CornerGrade II* listedBailiff's HouseGrade II* listedThe Hop Pole InnGrade II listedChurch of All SaintsGrade II listedRailway Viaduct and Adjoining Revetments Immediately North West of Bewdley Railway StationGrade II listed+6See all photos

Photos from Wikimedia Commons and Geograph, copied to our own server, each credited to its photographer with its licence; names open the building’s page or its official list entry.

c. 1900

Public domain, from Wikimedia Commons, copied to our own server. Each credit opens the image’s page with its full description and history.

Historic England lists buildings in three grades: Grade I for buildings of exceptional interest (about 2.5% of all listed buildings), Grade II* for particularly important buildings of more than special interest (about 5.8%), and Grade II for buildings of special interest (about 91.7%). Listing protects the whole building, inside and out.

Every entry on the National Heritage List for England whose point lies inside the ONS 2022 built-up-area boundary. One list entry can cover a terrace or a group of buildings. Neighbourhood dots: the population-weighted centre of each Census 2021 output area, coloured by its neighbourhood’s (LSOA’s) share of homes built before 1919 (Valuation Office Agency, March 2025).

Load Street43 listed · 1 II*

High Street30 listed

Welch Gate22 listed

Wyre Hill14 listed

Severn Side South9 listed

Kidderminster Road7 listed

Lax Lane6 listed

Severn Side North6 listed

Burlton Terrace3 listed

Lower Park3 listed

Sandy Bank3 listed

Westbourne Street3 listed

Of the 279 entries, 160 are named by a street address; the rest are named buildings such as churches, halls and bridges.

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Historic England’s conservation areas layer, supplied by councils (incomplete in places, so a page fact, never graded). Hectares are the part of each area inside the built-up area.

The first 83 entries were listed in 1950. 90 came in 1975, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 0 have been added in the last 15 years.

Two measures, each ranked against every UK town of 1,000 or more, with protected heritage counting twice as much as the age of homes. Protected heritage counts each listed building by its grade (Grade I three points, II* two, II one), each scheduled monument and battlefield two, and each registered park or garden by its grade; it is ranked both per 10,000 residents and as a total, so a village with one fine church doesn’t outrank a historic city. The second measure is the share of homes built before 1919, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records. History is a character grade: it describes the town and isn’t part of the overall grade.

Mary Sidney

John Beddoe

Stanley Baldwin

Brian Turner Tom Lawrence

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Stanley Baldwin1867–1947 · British statesman (1867–1947)

Mary Sidney1561–1621 · Countess of Pembroke, poet, and literary patron

John Beddoe1826–1911 · English ethnologist (1826–1911)

Brian Turner Tom Lawrence1873–1949 · British Army enlisted member and equestrian (1873-1949)

Everyone born in Bewdley → Birthplaces from Wikidata; portraits from Wikimedia Commons.

Few towns are as rich in listed heritage as Bewdley: per resident it has more than 95% of UK towns. All told, the list holds 279 listed buildings, including Bewdley Town Hall. On Load Street alone there are 43 listed buildings. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1968.

Of the whole list, 81% are houses, terraces and villas. Stanley Baldwin (1867), Mary Sidney (1561) and John Beddoe (1826) are among the 4 people born here before 1900. The rest is about typical: like most towns its size, it has no Grade I building; and 20% of its homes were built before 1919, close to the 15% in the typical UK town.