Wyre Piddle

Wyre Piddle

infobox UK place
country = England
official_name= Wyre Piddle
latitude= 52.1245
longitude= -2.0509
population = 535
shire_district= Wychavon
shire_county = Worcestershire
region= West Midlands
constituency_westminster= Mid Worcestershire
post_town= PERSHORE
postcode_area= WR
postcode_district= WR10
dial_code= 01386
os_grid_reference= SO965475

Wyre Piddle is a village and civil parish in the Wychavon district of Worcestershire, England. It is on the River Avon, near where that river is joined by the Piddle Brook - between Evesham and Pershore. Two excavations in the area have found evidence of late Iron Age and Roman occupation and also an enclosed pastoral settlement with four periods of occupation dating from the Middle Iron Age. In 1967 a hoard of 219 silver coins, some from as early as 1280 and none later than 1467.

*http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/english/ins/epntest/php/detailpop.php?placeno=5285
*http://worcestershire.whub.org.uk/home/wccindex/wcc-arch/wcc-arch-research/wcc-arch-surv/wcc-arch-surv-wyre.htm
*http://www.worcestershire.gov.uk/home/wccindex/wcc-museum-index/wcc-museum-collections/wcc-museum-treasures-wyrepiddle.htm


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