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  • A tree outside the pub was planted during the reign of Henry VIII.Al Walker, from Clives Fruit Farm of Upton upon Severn clivesfruitfarm.co.ukA longer walkWalk to the folly on the top of beautiful Bredon Hill with a blanket and a flask of tea or a bottle of wine.

    B&B review: Ivydene House 2011

  • Taggart also collects examples into wider themes such as how names evolve "through mumbling and confusion", the Norwegian influence on the northwest, tautological placenames "Bredon" means "hill hill", and placenames we might snigger at, though they have "perfectly sensible derivations": Badgers Mount, Great Snoring, Nasty, and Ogle.

    Et cetera: non-fiction roundup 2011

  • Taggart also collects examples into wider themes such as how names evolve "through mumbling and confusion", the Norwegian influence on the northwest, tautological placenames "Bredon" means "hill hill", and placenames we might snigger at, though they have "perfectly sensible derivations": Badgers Mount, Great Snoring, Nasty, and Ogle.

    Et cetera: non-fiction roundup 2011

  • Keenlyside, always engrossing, nevertheless seemed physically awkward and vocally tense in Six Songs from A Shropshire Lad and "Bredon Hill" by George Butterworth, who died on the Somme in 1916, aged 31.

    BBC Prom 54; La fanciulla del West; Joyce DiDonato; Simon Keenlyside; Kronos Quartet 2010

  • George Butterworth, whose lyrical "Bredon Hill" has equal heartbreaking impact, could hardly have known that he himself would fall on the Somme in 1916, aged 31.

    The 10 best classical tear-jerkers Fiona Maddocks 2010

  • In the story "Murder Must Advertise", Lord Peter used his middle names of "Death Bredon" as his alias when he went undercover at an advertising agency.

    A FEW DEATHS IN THE WIMSEY FAMILY Toby O'B 2010

  • Hartley, from Bredon near Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire, was pronounced dead at the scene.

    Drunk driver guilty of killing two Britons in US 2010

  • Only she hoped Bredon would be more light-hearted; Charlie took everything so seriously.

    Presumption of Death Sayers, Dorothy L. 2002

  • “You were in one of the shelters, I hope?” said Harriet, gathering Bredon and Polly in a two-armed hug.

    Presumption of Death Sayers, Dorothy L. 2002

  • Only yesterday Bredon, who was not quite four, spotting a collapsed section of garden wall in the High Street, had asked her if that was war damage.

    Presumption of Death Sayers, Dorothy L. 2002

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