Evesham

Why come through here

Evesham station is on the High Street side of the town, a short walk north of the centre, on the Cotswold Line between Worcester and Moreton-in-Marsh: about 1 hour 46 minutes from London Paddington, with the trains roughly hourly and fewer on a Sunday, and the platform for London reached step-free only by the road. The car park has 70 spaces and is free, there is a taxi rank, and the ticket office opens on weekday and Saturday mornings. It is the station for Broadway, about 7 miles away by road, because it has the one bus that climbs the edge: N N Cresswell's R4 leaves from opposite the station approach for Broadway at 8.45am, 11.07am and 1.07pm on weekdays, takes about 20 minutes and runs on to Willersey, and a 3.28pm goes the long way round by Badsey and reaches Broadway at about 4pm. Buses leave Broadway for Evesham at about 7.55am, 9.30am, 11.46am, 1.46pm and 4.16pm. It runs Monday to Friday only, and not on bank holidays or between Christmas and New Year, so check the operator's timetable. Honeybourne, the next station east, is nearer Broadway and Chipping Campden but has no useful bus.

The other buses are the vale's: First's X50 from Worcester by Pershore about hourly, Stagecoach's 28 from Stratford-upon-Avon, Diamond's 540 to Tewkesbury under Bredon Hill, and a Hedgehog community bus to Chipping Campden on Tuesdays and Thursdays only. By car the A44 runs from Worcester through the town and up Fish Hill to Broadway Tower, the A46 south to Tewkesbury and the M5, and the B4035 south-east to Chipping Campden. Getting here has the trains and the buses page the rest.

A day in the town

Start at the Bell Tower, which stands on its own beside the two parish churches by the river, 34m high in three stages with openwork battlements and an unfinished vault in the arch beneath. Abbot Clement Lichfield built it in the early 1500s as the abbey's bell tower, not long before the abbey was surrendered to Henry VIII in 1540 and the church was pulled down. The tower alone was spared, and the story goes that the men of Evesham, who had helped pay for it, saved it. The Almonry, the abbey's 600-year-old almonry building on Merstow Green, is the town's museum and tourist information centre. Its museum was closed for repair in 2026, with the information desk moved to 1 to 3 Merstow Green (WR11 4BD), open from Monday to Saturday, 9.30am to 5pm, and its site is the place for the town's own listings: The Almonry, Evesham (opens in a new tab).

From the Bell Tower walk through the abbey park to the river, where the Avon loops round the town, and along Waterside to the Workman Gardens and the bridge. Crown Meadow is where the Battle of Evesham festival camps. The Fleece Inn at Bretforton, about 4 miles east, is the pub where the asparagus festival opens.

Into the Cotswolds from here

The edge is a single road. The A44 climbs out of the vale at Broadway, about 7 miles away, where the village street runs up to the foot of Fish Hill and Broadway Tower stands on Beacon Hill above it. The 4.5-mile walk from the village up to the tower is the first Cotswold walk from Evesham, and the longer loop by Pye Corner and the Cotswold Way the second. Willersey, the vale village at the foot of the hill between Broadway and Chipping Campden, is where the R4 ends. South along the edge are Stanton and Snowshill, with the walk between them over the edge, and Winchcombe and Sudeley Castle beyond. North is Chipping Campden, where the Cotswold Way starts, and Hidcote above Mickleton.

The day loop by car runs Evesham, Broadway, Snowshill, Stanton, Winchcombe and back across the vale by the A46 and Sedgeberrow, about 40 miles, or the other way by Chipping Campden, Hidcote and Mickleton. Without a car, the weekday R4 to Broadway and the walk up to the tower is the day. On a Saturday it is the train to Moreton-in-Marsh and the 801.

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When to come

The British Asparagus Festival runs from St George's Day to Midsummer: it opens on St George's Day at the Fleece in Bretforton with a cavalcade of classic cars and Gus the Asparagus Man (Thursday 23 April in 2026; the 2027 programme is not yet announced, and by the pattern the launch would be Friday 23 April), the auctions, the Bretforton Silver Band's in the Fleece's courtyard and St Leonard's church's at the Cross, come in late May (24 and 31 May in 2026), and it closes with the Vale of Evesham Morris festival on Father's Day weekend in June. The first weekend of August brings the Battle of Evesham festival to Crown Meadow, free, with a living-history camp and the battle of 1265 re-fought (7 and 8 August in 2027), and a medieval market in May (22 and 23 May in 2027). The vale blossoms in April and the edge above it is at its best then too.