Worcestershire

The Niceties Podcast

1. Worcestershire is a county in the West Midlands of England. Between 1974 and 1998, it was merged with the neighbouring county of Herefordshire as Hereford and Worcester. The cathedral city of Worcester is the largest settlement and county town 2. Worcestershire sauce is a fermented liquid condiment of complex mixture originally created in the city of Worcester in Worcestershire, England in the first half of the 19th century. The creators were the chemists John Wheeley Lea and William Henry Perrins, who went on to form the company Lea & Perrins. Worcestershire sauce legally has been considered a generic term since 1876 when the High Court of the United Kingdom ruled that Lea & Perrins did not own the trademark to "Worcestershire".