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CHURCH LENCH - Extract from National Gazetteer, 1868

"CHURCH LENCH, a parish partly in the hundred of Halfshire, and partly in the hundred of Blackenhurst, in the county of Worcester, 3 miles N. of the Fladbury station, and 7 N.E. of Pershore. The living is a rectory* in the diocese of Worcester, value £180, in the patronage of the lord chancellor. The church is a stone structure in the Gothic style, with tower. The whole has lately been restored. The charities amount to about £2 per annum."

"ATCH LENCH, a hamlet in the parish of Church-Lench, lower division of the hundred of Blackenhurst, county Worcester, 6 miles N. of Evesham."

"LENCH ATCH, a hamlet in the parish of Church Lench, upper division of the hundred of Halfshire, in the county of Worcester, 4 miles from Evesham."

"SHERIFFS LENCH, a hamlet in the parish of Church Lench, lower division of Blakenhurst hundred, county Worcester, 1½ mile S.W. of Church Lenc, 5 miles N.W. of Evesham.

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]

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