Alcester is an old market town of Roman origin at the junction of the River Alne and the River Arrow in Warwickshire, England. It is situated approximately 8 miles (13 km) west of Stratford-upon-Avon and 8 miles south of Redditch, close to the Worcestershire border.
In Roman times Alcester (Alauna) was a walled town and Roman fort of some importance being located at a junction between the Ryknild Street Roman road, the ancient Saltway from Droitwich, the Roman road from Stratford upon Avon and the Fosse Way.
FOR more than 150 years Alcester had been served by a single lodge of Freemasons Apollo, founded to much fanfare in 1794.
The 11 would be founders met with the master, treasurer and secretary of Apollo Lodge at the foot of the winding staircase in The Swan Hotel in Alcester on July 18, 1945. Coming just two months after the end of the Second World War in Europe, it was fitting such efforts were being made to found a branch of an organisation based on brotherly love, relief and truth.
It was decided the new lodge should be called Alauna.