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Is Worcester the oldest settlement in the UK?


NOT a lot of people may know this, but Worcester can lay a very decent claim to being the oldest inhabited settlement in the UK. Its history stretches back around 5,000 years and even as recently as the late 1600s it was the largest town in the Midlands.
Back then Birmingham was a market town half the size, so too was Gloucester, while Warwick and Lichfield were considerably smaller still. In 1678 Worcester had a population of more than 10,000, which also put Nottingham (7,000) and Leicester and Coventry (both 6,000) well in the shade.
For many years the late Philip Barker, an eminent archaeologist, lived in the city and carried out several exhaustive studies into its origins. In the late 1960s, aerial photography revealed in astonishing detail evidence of the earliest habitation of the area about 5,000 years ago. ....

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