PERSHORE HOLY-CROSS - Extract from National Gazetteer, 1868

"PERSHORE HOLY-CROSS, a parish in the town of Pershore, county Worcester. See Pershore.

"WADBOROUGH, a hamlet in the parish of Holy Cross, hundred of Pershore, county Worcester, 3 miles N. W. of Pershore. It is a station on the Midland railway, and is situated on the Birmingham canal."
"WALCOT-CUM-MEMBRIS, a hamlet in the parish of Holy Cross, upper division of Pershore hundred, county Worcester, 1½ mile N.W. of Pershore. It includes Drake's Broughton."

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