Bromsgrove

Bromsgrove is a town in Worcestershire, England, about 16 miles north-east of Worcester and 13 miles south-west of Birmingham city centre. It had a population of 29,237 in 2001. Bromsgrove is the main town in the larger Bromsgrove District. In the Middle Ages it was a small market town; primarily producing cloth through the early modern period. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries it became a major centre for nail making.