DODDERHILL, Worcestershire

"DODDERHILL, a parish partly in the upper division of the hundred of Halfshire, and partly in Droitwich borough, in the county of Worcester, half a mile N.E. of Droitwich. It is situated on the road to Bromsgrove, and near the Midland railway, which has a station at Droitwich. The parish contains the extra-parochial place of Crutch, and the hamlets of Rashwood, Astwood, Impney, and the village of Wychbold. William de Dovere founded a hospital here for a master and poor brethren, temp. Edward I., which was called St. Augustine de Wich."

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