THE Queen could be visiting Malvern following an invitation from a conservation body.

The Malvern Hills Conservators' board passed a motion to inform the Queen that Jubilee Hill had been named in her honour and to invite her, or another member of the Royal Family, to come and see it.

John Tretheway, who proposed the motion, said the idea to invite a royal figure to Malvern had come to him when the naming ceremony was taking place on the hill.

"It would be a great honour for Malvern to have the Queen or a member of the royal family walking on our Hills," he said, adding that the Queen had never walked on the Malvern Hills, despite a visit to the Three Counties Show.

"Local legend has it that Queen Victoria walked on the Hills, but who knows about that? I don't," he added.

Meanwhile, steps are in hand for a small plaque to be fixed to an appropriate outcrop of rock, which would read: "Jubilee Hill - June 2002".

The previously unnamed peak, which lies at the top of Jubilee Drive, between Perseverance Hill to the north and Pinnacle Hill to the south, was formally named in June this year.

Around 100 people attended the ceremony and heard Conservators chairman Richard Graves give a brief speech officially naming the peak.

Bonfire

The event was deliberately kept low-key in order to focus on the lighting of the Jubilee Bonfire at the top of Worcestershire Beacon on Monday, June 3.

As well as christening the hill, the Conservators issued a leaflet to accompany the event, which included details of the history of Jubilee Drive, named in honour of Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee in 1887.

This was distributed to schools and around town as a memento and will also be available to visitors, as it includes an updated map of the Hills.