http://www.parishroots.co.uk/ 2010-03-10T07:04:32-06:00 http://www.parishroots.co.uk/ http://www.parishroots.co.uk/lib/images/favicon.ico text/html 2010-03-01T06:37:25-06:00 Sally Lloyd http://www.parishroots.co.uk/doku.php/worcestershire/atch_lench [] Atch Lench – a hamlet in the parish of Church-Lench, hund. of Blakenhurst, lower division, 5 miles N. from Evesham, and 102 from London. Population, 1801, 70 – 1811, no return – 1821, 63. Source: Worcestershire Delineated: Being a Topographical Description of Each Parish, Chapelry, Hamlet, &c. In the County; with the distances and bearings from their respective market towns, &c. By C. and J. Greenwood. Printed by T. Bensley, Crane Court, Fleet Street, London, 1822. text/html 2010-03-01T06:37:22-06:00 Sally Lloyd http://www.parishroots.co.uk/doku.php/worcestershire/aldington Aldington – a hamlet to the parish of Badsey, in the hundred of Blakenhurst, upper division, 2 miles E. from Evesham, containing 19 inhabited houses. Population, 1801, 83 – 1811, no return – 1821, 87. Source: Worcestershire Delineated: Being a Topographical Description of Each Parish, Chapelry, Hamlet, &c. In the County; with the distances and bearings from their respective market towns, &c. By C. and J. Greenwood. Printed by T. Bensley, Crane Court, Fleet Street, London, 1822. text/html 2010-03-01T06:37:19-06:00 Sally Lloyd http://www.parishroots.co.uk/doku.php/herefordshire/munsley [] Munsley Herefordshire Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales Circa 1870 Munsley, a parish, with a village, in Ledbury district, Hereford; 1 mile NE of Ashperton r. station and 3 ¾ NW of Ledbury. Post-town, Ledbury. Acres, 1,228. Real property, £1,908. Pop., 234. Houses, 36. The property is divided among a few. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Hereford. Value, £227. Patron, the Rev. J. Hopton. The church is old, and was recently in disrepair. text/html 2010-03-01T06:37:16-06:00 Sally Lloyd http://www.parishroots.co.uk/doku.php/herefordshire/aston_ingham/aston_ingham_cassey_directory_of_herefordshire_1858 Aston Ingham is a parish and village, 5 miles east from Ross railway station, 13 from Gloucester, and 130 from London, in Greytree Hundred, Ross county court district and petty sessional division, Newent Union, Hereford archdeaconry and bishopric; it is situated on the borders of Gloucestershire, 2 miles north of the Hereford, Ross, and Gloucester railway, and close by the celebrated May Hill, known as the mariner’s landmark in the Irish Sea and British Channel. The church is an old stone build… text/html 2010-03-01T06:37:09-06:00 Sally Lloyd http://www.parishroots.co.uk/doku.php/herefordshire/aston_ingham [] Aston Ingham Cassey Directory of Herefordshire 1858 Aston Ingham text/html 2010-03-01T06:37:06-06:00 Sally Lloyd http://www.parishroots.co.uk/doku.php/herefordshire/ashperton * Name of Place: Ashperton * Alternative Names: * County: Herefordshire * Hundred: Radlow * Union: Ledbury * Number of Miles from: * Railway Station: * Parish: Ashperton * Church: St. Bartholomew [] * Diocese: * Original registers deposited at: Hereford Record Office * Dates: 1538-1995 * I.G.I Coverage: 1538-1884 * Boyd’s Marriage Index: * Pallot’s Marriage Index: * Registration District (1837-1851): Ledbury text/html 2010-03-01T06:37:03-06:00 Sally Lloyd http://www.parishroots.co.uk/doku.php/herefordshire/almeley * Name of Place: Almeley * Alternative Names: * County: Herefordshire * Hundred: * Union: * Number of Miles from: * Railway Station: * Parish: Almeley * Church: St. Mary [] * Diocese: * Original registers deposited at: Hereford Record Office * Dates: 1596-1997 * I.G.I Coverage: 1596-1860 * Boyd’s Marriage Index:1598-1754 * Pallot’s Marriage Index: * Registration District (1837-1851): Weobley text/html 2010-03-01T06:37:00-06:00 Sally Lloyd http://www.parishroots.co.uk/doku.php/herefordshire/allensmore * Name of Place: Allensmore * Alternative Names: * County: Herefordshire * Hundred: Webtree * Union: 1845, Webtree; 1858, Hereford * Number of Miles from: Hereford - 4 miles * Railway Station: Tram Inn railway station (1 1/2 miles) * Parish: Allensmore * Church: St. Andrew [] * Diocese: * Original registers deposited at: Hereford Record Office * Dates: 1698-1980 * I.G.I Coverage: 1660-1863 * Boyd’s Marriage Index: * Pallot’s Marriage Index: * Registration Distr… text/html 2010-03-01T06:36:56-06:00 Sally Lloyd http://www.parishroots.co.uk/doku.php/herefordshire/adforton [] Adforton, with Stanway, Payton, and Grange, a township, in the parish of Leintwardine, union of Knighton, hundred of Wigmore, county of Hereford, 8 ½ miles (W. S. W.) from Ludlow; containing 288 inhabitants, and comprising 1565 acres. The surface is boldly undulated, and the southern portion well wooded. On an eminence at the northern extremity are the remains of a Roman encampment called Brandon camp; and the road from Leintwardine to Wigmore passes through the village of Adforton. A schoo… text/html 2010-03-01T06:36:52-06:00 Sally Lloyd http://www.parishroots.co.uk/doku.php/herefordshire/aconbury * Name of Place: Aconbury * Alternative Names: Acconbury * County: Herefordshire * Hundred: Wormelow, Upper Division * Union: Hereford * Number of Miles from: Hereford - 4½ miles; Ross - 9 miles * Railway Station: Holme Lacy - 2 1/2 miles * Parish: Aconbury * Church: St. John the Baptist * Diocese: * Original registers deposited at: Hereford Record Office * Dates: 1736-1971 * I.G.I Coverage: 1665-1883 * Boyd’s Marriage Index: * Pallot’s Marriage Index: * Registra… text/html 2010-02-28T21:06:59-06:00 Sally Lloyd http://www.parishroots.co.uk/doku.php/worcestershire/ripple [] Ripple – a parish in the hundred of Oswaldslow, lower division, 4 miles N.N.E from Tewkesbury, and 108 from London; containing 142 inhabited houses. It is a rectory, with the chapelry of Queenhill annexed; Rev. Job Walker Baugh, incumbent; instituted 1812; patron, the Bishop of Worcester. Population, 1801, 679 – 1811, 890 – 1821, 780. text/html 2010-02-28T21:06:57-06:00 Sally Lloyd http://www.parishroots.co.uk/doku.php/worcestershire/mamble [] Mamble – a parish in the hundred of Doddingtree, lower division, 7 miles W.S.W. from Bewdley, and 135 from London; containing 65 inhabited houses. The living is a vicarage, united with Bayton, in the diocese of Hereford, and archdeaconry of Salop; the Rev. Thomas Davis, incumbent; instituted 1816; patron, the King. Population, 1801, 338 – 1811, 345 – 1821, 386. text/html 2010-02-28T21:06:54-06:00 Sally Lloyd http://www.parishroots.co.uk/doku.php/worcestershire/lulsley [] Lulsley – a hamlet and chapelry to the parish of Suckley, in the hundred of Doddingtree, upper division, 7 miles W.S.W. from Worcester, and 119 from London; containing 26 inhabited houses. Population, 1801, 131 – 1811, 134 – 1821, 120. Source: Worcestershire Delineated: Being a Topographical Description of Each Parish, Chapelry, Hamlet, &c. In the County; with the distances and bearings from their respective market towns, &c. By C. and J. Greenwood. Printed by T. Bensley, Crane Court, Flee… text/html 2010-02-28T21:06:52-06:00 Sally Lloyd http://www.parishroots.co.uk/doku.php/worcestershire/huddington [] Huddington – a parish in the hundred of Oswaldslow, middle division, 5 miles S.E. from Droitwich, and 115 from London; containing 17 inhabited houses. This was formerly a chapelry to the parish of Crowle. It is a perpetual curacy; Rev. Robert Vernon, incumbent; patron, Earl of Shrewsbury. Population, 1801, 108 – 1811, 99 – 1821, 125. text/html 2010-02-28T21:06:49-06:00 Sally Lloyd http://www.parishroots.co.uk/doku.php/worcestershire/hanley_child [] Hanley-Child – a hamlet and chapelry in the parish of Eastham, hundred of Doddingtree, upper division, 4 ½ miles S.E. from Tenbury, and 129 from London; containing 36 inhabited houses. Population, 1801, 158 – 1811, 151 – 1821, 195. Source: Worcestershire Delineated: Being a Topographical Description of Each Parish, Chapelry, Hamlet, &c. In the County; with the distances and bearings from their respective market towns, &c. By C. and J. Greenwood. Printed by T. Bensley, Crane Court, Fleet St… text/html 2010-02-28T21:06:47-06:00 Sally Lloyd http://www.parishroots.co.uk/doku.php/worcestershire/eastham/eastham_with_hanley_william_hanley_child_and_orleton_billings_directory_1855 Eastham is distant from Tenbury about 3 miles, comprising, in 1851, a population of 319 inhabitants, and an area of 5000 acres. Hanley William is a small parish and village, and was annexed to Eastham in the year 1560; it contained in 1851 a population of 125. text/html 2010-02-28T21:06:47-06:00 Sally Lloyd http://www.parishroots.co.uk/doku.php/worcestershire/eastham/eastham_worcestershire_delineated_c._and_j._greenwood_1822 Eastham – a parish in the hundred of Doddingtree, upper division, 4 ½ miles E. from Tenbury, and 129 from London; containing 65 inhabited houses. The church is a Gothic edifice but the foundation is evidently Saxon, as appears from the highly ornamented arch over the principal entrance. The living is a curacy, with the chapelries of Hanley-Child and Orleton, and the rectory of Hanley-William annexed; incumbent, the Rev. Edward Whitehead, who has a charming residence about half a mile from the … text/html 2010-02-28T21:06:27-06:00 Sally Lloyd http://www.parishroots.co.uk/doku.php/worcestershire/eastham/eastham_lewis_worcestershire_directory_1820 Eastham, near Tenbury, containing 70 houses, and 385 inhabitants. The hamlets of Hanley Child, Hanley William, and Orlton, are in this parish. Amphlett John, farmer Amphlett Richard, farmer Badger Edward, farmer Badger Mary, farmer Barnbrook Thos., farmer text/html 2010-02-28T21:06:24-06:00 Sally Lloyd http://www.parishroots.co.uk/doku.php/worcestershire/eastham/eastham_lewis_topographical_dictionary_of_england_1845 Eastham (St. Peter and St. Paul), a parish, in the union of Tenbury, upper division of the hundred of Doddingtree, Hundred-House and W. divisions of the county of Worcester, 4 ¼ miles (E.) from Tenbury; containing, with the chapelries of Child-Hanley and Orleton, 599 inhabitants. The parish is bounded on the north by the river Teme, and intersected by the road from Droitwich to Tenbury, and consists of 3681 acres, of which 2220 are in the township. The living is a rectory, with that of Hanley-Wi… text/html 2010-02-28T21:06:21-06:00 Sally Lloyd http://www.parishroots.co.uk/doku.php/worcestershire/eastham/eastham_laird_description_of_worcestershire_1814 Eastham is a small village, containing the seat of the reverend Christopher Whitehurst, and is a most charming situation, from the great extent of wooded scenery around it. The bridge which leads off from the post road, over a very rapid part of the Teme, has a most pleasing effect, contrasted with the dark foliage of the deep embowering woods which hangover it. The house is plain and neat, and the grounds partake of the nature of the surrounding scenery. text/html 2010-02-28T21:06:19-06:00 Sally Lloyd http://www.parishroots.co.uk/doku.php/worcestershire/eastham * Name of Place: Eastham * Alternative Names: * County: Worcestershire * Hundred: Doddingtree, Upper Division * Union: Tenbury * Number of Miles from: Tenbury - 4 ¼ miles * Railway Station: * Parish: Eastham * Church: St. Peter and St. Paul. * Diocese: * Original registers deposited at: Worcester Record Office * Dates: 1571-1962 * I.G.I Coverage: 1571-1880 * Boyd’s Marriage Index: 1651-1675 * Pallot’s Marriage Index: 1790-1837 * Registration District (1837-18… text/html 2010-02-28T21:06:15-06:00 Sally Lloyd http://www.parishroots.co.uk/doku.php/worcestershire/dodderhill * Name of Place: Dodderhill * Alternative Names: * County: Worcestershire * Hundred: * Union: * Number of Miles from: * Railway Station: * Parish: Dodderhill * Church: * Diocese: * Original registers deposited at: Worcester Record Office * Dates: 1651-1893 * I.G.I Coverage: 1613-1875 * Boyd’s Marriage Index: * Pallot’s Marriage Index: * Registration District (1837-1851): Droitwich text/html 2010-02-28T21:06:09-06:00 Sally Lloyd http://www.parishroots.co.uk/doku.php/worcestershire/alfrick * Name of Place: Alfrick * Alternative Names: * County: Worcestershire * Hundred: Doddingtree, Upper Division * Union: Martley * Number of Miles from: Worcester - 7 ½ W; Bromyard - 7 E. * Railway Station: Leigh Court Station - 1 ½ miles; Knightwick Station - 2 * Parish: Suckley * Church: St. Mary or St. Mary Magdalene (Pevsner) * Diocese: * Original registers deposited at: Worcester Record Office * Dates: 1656 – 1967 * I.G.I Coverage: 1622 – 1876 * Boyd’s Marriage In… text/html 2010-02-28T21:06:05-06:00 Sally Lloyd http://www.parishroots.co.uk/doku.php/tag/eastham_parish Worcestershire text/html 2010-02-27T19:33:40-06:00 Sally Lloyd http://www.parishroots.co.uk/doku.php/worcestershire/earls_croome/earls_croome_littleburys_worcester_directory_1905 Distances – 9 miles S. of Worcester and 1 mile N.E. of Upton-on-Severn. Population – In 1901, 180. Acreage, 1150. Postal Information – Post Office, James Bull, Sub-postmaster. Letters are received through Worcester and arrive at 5.45 a.m. and 6.0 p.m.; despatched at 5.45 a.m. and 6.55 p.m. on week-days and Sundays. Upton-on-Severn is the nearest money order and telegraph office. Post town, Worcester. text/html 2010-02-27T19:33:38-06:00 Sally Lloyd http://www.parishroots.co.uk/doku.php/worcestershire/earls_croome/earls_croome_littleburys_directory_1879 Earl’s Croome, so called from the connection of the Beauchamps with the parish, was previously known as Croome Simon, after the name of the possessor, temp. Henry II. It is a village and parish situate near the Severn, 1 mile N.E. of Upton, and 9 S. of Worcester; is in the western division of the county, Lower Oswaldslow hundred, Upton union and polling district, Pershore county court district and petty sessional division. The area of the parish is 1,141 acres; annual rateable value, £2,500; p… text/html 2010-02-27T19:33:34-06:00 Sally Lloyd http://www.parishroots.co.uk/doku.php/worcestershire/earls_croome/earls_croome_church Earls Croome Parish text/html 2010-02-27T19:33:33-06:00 Sally Lloyd http://www.parishroots.co.uk/doku.php/worcestershire/earls_croome/earls_croome_lewis_worcestershire_directory_1820 Barnes Benj., farmer Broome Mrs., gentlewoman Bull George, farmer Deakins Richard, farmer Dorville J. W. esq. Dunne Rev. Charles Ninde P., gent. Price David, farmer Taylor Wm., farmer Weaver William, farmer Welles E. F., esq. Source: S Lewis Worcestershire General and Commercial Directory for 1820. text/html 2010-02-27T19:33:20-06:00 Sally Lloyd http://www.parishroots.co.uk/doku.php/worcestershire/earls_croome/earls_croome_1855 Earl’s Croome is a very small parish, about a mile from Upton, and contained according to the last census a population of 199 inhabitants. The Church, dedicated to St. Nicholas, is a small, old building, with low square tower, containing 5 bells. The architectural features of this edifice are of a description requiring no comment. The living is a Rectory. Rev. Henry Charles Phillpott, Rector; Mr. Thomas Lowe, Clerk. Service - 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. text/html 2010-02-27T19:33:03-06:00 Sally Lloyd http://www.parishroots.co.uk/doku.php/worcestershire/earls_croome/crome_earls_earls_croome_worcestershire_delineated_c._and_j._greenwood_1822 Crome-Earls – a parish adjoining Crome D’Abitot, and in the same division, containing 37 inhabited houses. The church is an ancient structure: in the wall that divides the belfry from the nave is a row of intersecting Saxon arches, supported by short columns. The tower is built of timber, and contains five bells. It is a rectory; Rev. C. Dunne, incumbent; instituted 1807; patron, M. Dunne, Esq. Population, 1801, 158 – 1811, 178 – 1821, 186. text/html 2010-02-27T19:33:00-06:00 Sally Lloyd http://www.parishroots.co.uk/doku.php/worcestershire/earls_croome * Name of Place: Earls Croome * Alternative Names: * County: Worcestershire * Hundred: * Union: * Number of Miles from: * Railway Station: * Parish: Earls Croome * Church: St. Nicholas * Diocese: * Original registers deposited at: Worcester Record Office * Dates: 1644-1993 * I.G.I Coverage: 1612-1875 * Boyd’s Marriage Index: * Pallot’s Marriage Index: * Registration District (1837-1851): Upton-on-Severn text/html 2010-02-27T19:33:00-06:00 Sally Lloyd http://www.parishroots.co.uk/doku.php/tag/earls_croome_parish Worcestershire text/html 2010-02-27T19:32:42-06:00 Sally Lloyd http://www.parishroots.co.uk/doku.php/start Parishroots contains historical information about towns, parishes and hamlets within the UK. Parishes have easy reference facts for genealogical research giving the dates of parish registers deposited at the relevant records office together with a listing of the IGI coverage and the coverage of Boyd's and Pallot's marriage indexes. The site also includes historical illustrations and modern day photographs. text/html 2010-02-27T11:50:29-06:00 Sally Lloyd http://www.parishroots.co.uk/doku.php/worcestershire/upton_on_severn/upton_upon_severn_with_the_village_of_hanley_castle_and_neighbours_slater_s_directory_1850 Upton is a parish in the hundred of Pershore – the market town is 111 miles N.W. by N. form London, 10 S. from Worcester, 8 S.E. from Malvern, the like distance S.W. from Pershore, 7 N.N.W. from Tewkesbury, 26 E. from Hereford, 10 E. by N. from Ledbury, and 5 miles W. from the Defford station on the Birmingham and Bristol railway. The town is eligibly seated on the western bank of the Severn, which is here navigable for vessels of one hundred and ten tons burthen; and from its trade and shipmen… text/html 2010-02-27T11:50:20-06:00 Sally Lloyd http://www.parishroots.co.uk/doku.php/worcestershire/hanley_castle/hanley_castle_worcestershire_delineated_c._and_j._greenwood_1822 Hanley-Castle – a parish in the hundred of Pershore, lower division, 1 ½ mile N.N.W. from Upton-on-Severn, and 111 from London; containing 256 inhabited houses. There formerly was a castle here, but no traces of it are now to be seen. The village is delightfully situated near the Malvern-hills, and there are several gentlemen’s seats in the neighbourhood. Here is a good free school, originally intended as a classical one, but is now on Dr. Bell’s system: the present income is returned at abou… text/html 2010-02-27T11:50:17-06:00 Sally Lloyd http://www.parishroots.co.uk/doku.php/worcestershire/hanley_castle/hanley_castle_littleburys_directory_1879 Hanley Castle is an extensive parish and pleasant village on the west bank of the Severn, 1 ½ miles N.W. of Upton, 5 S.E. of Great Malvern, and 8 ½ S. of Worcester; is in the western division of the county and hundred of Lower Pershore; union, petty sessional division, highway, and polling district of Upton-on-Severn; county court district of Malvern; annual rateable value, £18,611; area of parish, 5,681 acres; population in 1861, 1,733; in 1871, 2,167, with 417 inhabited houses, and 444 familie… text/html 2010-02-27T11:50:09-06:00 Sally Lloyd http://www.parishroots.co.uk/doku.php/worcestershire/hanley_castle/hanley_castle_lewis_worcestershire_directory_1820 Hanley Castle, 2 miles from Upton, containing 176 houses, and 986 inhabitants. There are several gentlemen’s seats in this parish. Barber William, farmer Barnes John, farmer Barry Miss, gentlewoman Baylis William, farmer Berry Thomas, farmer text/html 2010-02-27T11:50:06-06:00 Sally Lloyd http://www.parishroots.co.uk/doku.php/worcestershire/hanley_castle/hanley_castle_church