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"CHURCH HONEYBOURNE, a parish in the upper division of the hundred of Blackenhurst, in the county of Worcester, 5 miles from Evesham, its post town. The Oxford and Worcester line runs through this village, the station of which is about a mile distant from the church. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Worcester, value £285, in the patronage of the Rev. R. Poole. The church, dedicated to St. Ecgwin, is an ancient stone structure in the early. English style, with a beautiful spire of later date. It has not long since been repaired and internally altered at the sole cost of Mrs. Williams, widow of the late vicar, who at her death bequeathed £3,500 (Red, Three per cent. stock) for the future repair of this edifice and the parish church of Cow Honeybourne."
[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of
Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]
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