We walked up to the Worcestershire Beacon with Emma Louise TB on New Year's Day 2008 The Beacon (425m) is the highest point of the Malvern Hills, a range of hills running some 13 kilometres north-south along the Herefordshire-Worcestershire border.
On the summit is a viewfinder or toposcope, identifying the hills to be seen on a clear day; it was erected in 1897 to celebrate Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee. The views are very extensive, including to The Wrekin and past Birmingham to Cannock Chase, as well as much of Herefordshire and Gloucestershire, the Welsh borders, the Shropshire Hills and across the valleys of the Severn and Avon to the Cotswolds.
Happy New Year Emma Louise.