EVESHAM, Worcestershire

"EVESHAM, comprises the parishes of All Saints, St. Lawrence, and Bengeworth; it is a market town, municipal and parliamentary borough, in the lower division of the hundred of Blackenhurst, county Worcester, 15 miles S.E. of Worcester, and 13 N.E. of Tewkesbury. It is a station on the West Midland railway. The town, which is situated on a bend of the river Avon, in the rich vale of Evesham, is a place of considerable antiquity, and was called by the Saxons Eofesham or Eovesham."

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

Gazetteers

• The transcription of the section for Evesham from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.