Bromsgrove is a town in Worcestershire, England about 16 miles (26 km) north-east of Worcester and 13 miles (21 km) south-west of Birmingham city centre. It had a population of 29,237 in 2001. Bromsgrove is the main town in the larger Bromsgrove District. In the middle ages, it was a small market town producing cloth in the early modern period; in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries it was a major centre of nail making.