GRAFTON MANOR, Worcestershire

"GRAFTON MANOR, an extra parochial place in the upper division of the hundred of Halfshire, county Worcester, 2 miles S.W. of Bromsgrove. The London and North-Western railway passes near this place. It was formerly a chapelry. The earls of Shrewsbury had a noble seat here, of which there are some remains that escaped a conflagration which occurred therein 1710. The Roman Catholics have a chapel. The Earl of Shrewsbury is lord of the manor."

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