Borchester is a fictional town in the BBC Radio 4 radio series The Archers. Alternate history Campaign setting Counterfactual history Fantasy world Fictional The Archers is a British radio Soap opera broadcast on the BBC 's main spoken-word channel, Radio 4. It is the county town of the fictional county of Borsetshire. A county town is the 'capital' of a County in the United Kingdom or Republic of Ireland. Fictional counties are created by an author for character placement and story background Borsetshire is a Fictional county in the BBC Radio 4 series The Archers. According to series tradition it is located 6 miles north-east of Ambridge in the Am Vale and is an historic market and wool town. These typically English country-town features are complemented by more modern additions, such as Underwoods (an upmarket supermarket chain, possibly modelled on Waitrose) and Ambridge Organics, the shop run by Helen Archer. Waitrose is the Supermarket division of the John Lewis Partnership, with 192 branches as of September 2008 [1]
As the Archers is usually taken to "exist" in a region centred on Evesham and somewhere not too far from the Malvern Hills and the edge of the Cotswolds, Borchester could be connected to Broadway, Tewkesbury or Pershore. Evesham ( is a middle-sized rural Market town in Worcestershire, UK in the Local Authority District of Wychavon. The Malvern Hills are a range of hills in the English counties of Worcestershire, Herefordshire and a small area of northern Gloucestershire See also Cotswold The Cotswolds is a range of Hills in west-central England, sometimes called the "Heart of England" Broadway is a small Cotswold Village in Worcestershire, England. Tewkesbury (ˈtjuːksbri is a Town in Gloucestershire, England. Pershore is a small market Town in Worcestershire, England on the banks of the River Avon. Hints in the series about the range of shops, local features and road layout, as well as distances sometimes given between Borchester, Felpersham and Ambridge, tend to point to Pershore as the most likely analogy, if we assume that Felpersham = Evesham. Another school of thought has Felpersham as Worcester and Borchester as Droitwich Spa. Droitwich Spa is a Town in northern Worcestershire, England, on the River Salwarpe and has a population of 22585 (2001 This view is supported by the existence of a Bishop at Felpersham - Evesham does not have a Bishopric whereas Worcester does.
Although it is a county town, it is not a city. The nearby Felpersham, which might be based on Evesham, is the seat of a Church of England diocese and does have the city status that that usually implies. Felpersham is a Fictional city in the BBC Radio 4 radio series The Archers. The Church of England is the officially established Christian church in England, the Mother Church of the worldwide Anglican Borchester has a by-pass, built with much controversy during the 1980s. Evesham and Droitwich Spa both have by-passes but not Pershore.
The BBC published a map of Borchester in the 1990s, which, across a north-south axis common to both towns, was a 'cut and paste' of Evesham west of the axis and Great Malvern to the east. For a pejorative meaning see Cut and paste job In Human-computer interaction, cut and paste and copy and paste offer Evesham ( is a middle-sized rural Market town in Worcestershire, UK in the Local Authority District of Wychavon. Great Malvern is a Town in Worcestershire, England, positioned at the foot and partly on the sides of the Malvern Hills.
Borchester is the location of the magistrates court in the area. Phil Archer served as a magistrate there for many years. Philip Walter Archer (born 23 April 1928) is a character in The Archers, played by Norman Painting. In 1968, Nelson Gabriel, one of the most famous characters in The Archers, and a notorious rogue, was committed for trial and remanded in Gloucester prison at the Borchester magistrates. Nelson Gabriel (played by Jack May) is a character in the long-running BBC Radio series The Archers. He returned many years later to run a wine bar in the town from 1980 to 84.
Borchester is the scene of frequent shopping trips and social encounters in the series. It has a mixture of trendy, "southern England" features such as wine bars and upmarket delis combined with some working class neighbourhoods. The Grundy family lived for a while in a substandard council flat in Borchester after being evicted from Grange Farm in 2000.
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