The Tenbury Team area is at the intersection of three counties, Worcestershire, Herefordshire, and Shropshire. The area feels very much a link between the West Midlands to the east and the Welsh Marches to the west. Indeed, people seem to look in all directions – to Kidderminster, Ludlow, Leominster, Worcester and Hereford. The main geographic influences are the River Teme running through the middle of the area and Clee Hill rising up in the northern parishes.
There is some light industry, including dial making and jam making in Tenbury, and old mine workings towards the top of Clee Hill, but the feel of the area is predominantly rural with mixed arable, sheep and cattle farming, and fruit farming down towards the Teme Valley. The largest parish is Tenbury Wells itself with a parliamentary electoral roll (PER) of just over two thousand. The total PER for the nine parishes of the Team Ministry is just over four and a half thousand.
Housing is mixed and most is owner occupied. There are, however, small post war council developments in Tenbury with small pockets of poverty alongside the newer and more affluent private developments. There is also the possibility of further housing development in Tenbury Wells and Burford.
Tenbury is a well equipped market town with shops, pubs, schools, doctor’s surgery, hospital, library, sheltered accommodation and residential homes. The other parishes of the Team have very few facilities as their profiles show, so many come into Tenbury for what they need on a regular basis.