Curborough and Elmhurst

Curborough and Elmhurst is a

The northern, eastern and southern boundaries of Curborough and Elmhurst run along Full, Curborough and Circuit Brooks, the western boundary runs partly along Bilson Brook, and partly along the A51. The eastern part of Curborough, on the east side of Curborough Brook, is in Fradley and Streethay civil parishes, on the boundary of those parishes after they split on 1 April 2023.^[4]

The subsoil is Keuper Marl (Mercia Mudstone) with a band of Keuper Sandstone (Bromsgrove Sandstone) along the western boundary. There are stretches of Alluvium along Full, Curborough and Bilson Brooks. The land lies at its highest in the south where Binns Farm stands at 387 ft (118m). It falls away steeply on the north to Bilson Brook. On the east it slopes down more gently to 246 ft (75m) on the northern boundary near New Farm and to 231 ft (70m) on the eastern boundary at Curborough Farm.

History

An early resident of Curborough was Dr. Zachary Babington,