LINDRIDGE - Extract from National Gazetteer, 1868

"LINDRIDGE, a parish in the lower division of the hundred of Oswaldslow, county Worcester, 5½ miles E. of Tenbury. Stourport is its post town. It is situated on the river Teme and near the Leominster canal, which here passes through a tunnel 3,850 yards long. The parish com prises the chapelries of Knighton and Pensax, and the hamlet of Newnham. The inhabitants are chiefly engaged in agriculture. The land is partly in hops. The appropriate tithes have been commuted for a rent-charge of £479, and the vicarial for £600.

The living is a vicarage* [the asterisk denotes that there is a parsonage and glebe belonging to the living] in the diocese of Hereford, value £450, in the patronage of the Dean and Chapter of Worcester. The church, dedicated to St. Lawrence, is an ancient structure, containing several very old tombs. There are also two district churches at Knighton-on-Teame and Pensax, the livings of both which are perpetual curacies, value £100 each. The charities produce £8 per annum. There is a parochial school. The Wesleyans have a chapel at Frith Common."
"NEWNHAM, a hamlet in the parish of Lindridge, lower division of the hundred of Oswaldslow, county Worcester, 4 miles N.E. of Tenbury. It is a station on the Tenbury and Bewdley branch of the Shrewsbury and Hereford railway. It is situated near the river Rea."

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