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Worcestershire Beacon
Worcestershire Beacon, also popularly known as Worcester Beacon, or locally simply as ''The Beacon'', is a hill whose summit at 〔 is the highest point of the range of Malvern Hills that runs about north-south along the Herefordshire-Worcestershire border, although Worcestershire Beacon itself lies entirely within Worcestershire.
The hills are managed by the Malvern Hills Conservators under five Acts of Parliament of 1884, 1909, 1924, 1930, and 1995 whose aim is to preserve the nature and environment landscape of the area and to protect it from encroachments. The Beacon is highly popular with walkers with its easily reached dense network of footpaths crisscrossing it and the area has been designated by the Countryside Agency as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
==Toponymy==
The name Beacon comes from the use of the hill as a signalling beacon.〔beacon n. A fire (usually on a hill or tower) that can be seen from a distance; (Ultralingua English Dictionary 2009)〕 Lord Macaulay included the Beacon in his poem ''Armada'', which describes the chain of warning fires which were lit when the Spanish Armada attempted to invade England in 1588:
And on, and on, without a pause, untired they bounded still
All night from tower to tower they sprang; they sprang from hill to hill
Till the proud Peak unfurled the flag o’er Darwin’s rocky dales
Till like volcanoes flared to heaven the stormy hills of Wales,
Till twelve fair counties saw the blaze on Malvern’s lonely height,
Till streamed in crimson on the wind the Wrekin’s crest of light.〔(Thomas Macaulay, ''The Armada''. )〕
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