GREAT, a watering-place of England, county of Worcestershire, 8 miles S.W. by S. of Worcester, and 119 N.W. by W. of London, occupies a beautiful site on the eastern side of the Malvern Hills. There is an ancient church at Malvern, which formerly belonged to a monastery founded by Edward the Confessor, and was purchased by the inhabitants on the dissolution of the monastery. This church is one of the finest specimens of Gothic architecture in the kingdom. The town is irregularly built, but there are many fine villas and houses in the neighbourhood. It has a chapel of the Countess of Huntingdon's Connection, a handsome library, national and endowed schools, a dispensary, &c. Malvern is chiefly noted as a fashionable watering-place, and it is much frequented on account of its medicinal waters and its general salubrity. Baths and hotels have been built, and gardens and walks laid out, for the accommodation of the visitors. Pop. of parish (1851) 3763.

LITTLE, is a village about 3 miles to the S. of the former. The Malvern Hills extend N. and S. for nearly 9 miles, with a breadth of 1 or 2 miles, and separate Worcestershire from Hereford and Monmouth. They rise with a gentle slope, and the three greatest elevations are the North Hill, Worcestershire Beacon, and Herefordshire Beacon, the last of which is 1444 feet above the level of the sea.