A 1930s tourist guide said of The Malverns that 'The equability of the temperature and the dryness and purity of the air are notable characteristics. The fact that Malvern escapes excessive heat in summer will be taken for granted by everyone who knows its position and can draw natural conclusions, but the same conditions may be supposed to be detrimental in winter by reducing the temperature and making the season unpleasantly severe. Such effects, however, are not produced. The equability and mildness of the climate are attested by the luxurious growth of delicate evergreens, and roses often bloom all through the winter along the hill-side, from the altitude of Belle Vue Terrace, nearly 500 feet above the sea, to West Malvern, three or four hundred feet higher.
Between five and six hundred years ago the author of The Vision of Piers Plowman, William Langland wrote ;-
' On Malvern Hills
Thow myghtest bettre meet myst
Than gete a mom of hire mouth
Till moneie be shoewed'
That is, it would be easier to find mist on Malvern Hills than to get any sound out of their (the lawyers') mouths till they received their fees.
In the 1930s Malvern enjoyed an enviable reputation for freedom from fog when most industrial cities frequently were bathed in fog or palls of 'mingled vapour and smoke' that in large towns sometimes gave midday the darkness of night. Often when the wide plain below the Malvern is covered with a sea of fog the hills at and above the level of the Belle Vue Terrace are bathed in sunshine.
Sir Walter Besant , (1836-1901), the English novelist and humanitarian in describing Oregon , said the farmers and their families:-' breathe as sweet and pure an air as there is anywhere in the world, except, of course, Dartmoor, Hexham Common and the Malvern Hills ."
