TENBURY  , a

market town in the Bewdley parliamentary division of Worcestershire, England, on the Kidderminster-Wooferton branch of the Great Western railway, 153 M . W.N.W. of London . Pop . (Igor) 2080 . It is pleasantly situated on the right bank of the Teme, here the boundary with Shropshire . The town has a spa, whose waters are efficacious in rheumatic affections and diseases of the skin . The church of St Mary the Virgin has Norman remains in the tower and chancel . The district produces hops and fruit, and there is trade in cider . The Teme abounds in trout and grayling, and Tenbury is in favour with anglers . At Old Wood, 2 m . S.W. of Tenbury, are St Michael's church and college (1858), founded and partially endowed by the Rev . Sir Frederick Gore Ouseley, in which the ordinary preparatory education of boys is combined with a school for choristers and instruction in ecclesiastical music .