Lickey
Lickey is a
village in the north of
Worcestershire,
England. It lies in the district of
Bromsgrove, close to
Birmingham. Situated on the
Lickey Ridge, amongst the
Lickey Hills, its proximity to
countryside and the city makes it a popular
commuter area.
Lickey was populated rapidly from the
1870s onwards by
professionals and
industrialists such as
Herbert Austin, who moved to
Lickey Grange in
1910 and resided there until his death in
1941. He is
buried in the local
graveyard.
Lickey has very many late
victorian houses, but today it is difficult to gain a sense of the well spaced layout and wide
boulevards of victorian Lickey. Newer developments lack the distinctive style of the older buildings and crowd the
Victorian buildings.
There was a steady development of housing in Lickey in the
20th century; however, the area has maintained its mainly professional and entrepreneural population. Since the
1990s, there have been huge amounts of 'infill' housing, not just in Lickey, but also in nearby
Barnt Green. The best impression of victorian Lickey can be felt nowadays in the nearby tiny hamlet of
Shepley.
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Lickey Incline
