Bromsgrove is a town in the county of Worcestershire, England and is about 16 miles north-east of Worcester and 13 miles south-west of Birmingham. The first documented entry for Bromsgrove or 'Bremesgraf' as it was known was in 909 AD in a local Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. By the end of the Middle Ages Bromsgrove was well known for its wool trade and later in the 1500's for the manufacture of cloth, particularly narrow cloth and friezes. During the 18th and 19th centuries Bromsgrove later became very famous for nail making with over 10,000 workers employed in the industry. Today Bromsgrove still keeps its traditions close to heart with an annual ‘Court Leet’ parade, an 820-year-old tradition, starting at Houseman Hall with a procession and a marching band. The parade makes its way through the town centre to the Housman Statue where a reading of King John's Royal Charter from 1199 takes place..