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NORTH LITTLETON - Extract from National Gazetteer, 1868

"NORTH LITTLETON, a parish in the hundred of Upper Blackenhurst, county Worcester, 4 miles N.E. of Evesham, its' post town andrailway station on the West Midland line of railway: It is situated on the river Avon, and includes the township of Middle Littleton. This place formerly belonged to the Lyttletons, and is now the property of Earl Northwick. Ragstone is found. The tithes were commuted for land and corn rents under an Enclosure Act in 1811.

The living is a perpetual curacy annexed to that of South Littleton. The church, which is at Middle Littleton, is a stone structure in the early English style of architecture. The charities produce about £12 per annum. There is a National school. Near the village are remains of a churchyard cross and of an ancient barn, in which the tithes paid to Evesham Abbey were deposited.

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

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