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SALWARPE - Extract from National Gazetteer, 1868

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The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868

"SALWARPE, a parish in the borough of Droitwich, upper division of Halfshire hundred, county Worcester, 5½ miles N. of Worcester, its post town, and 2 S.W. of Droitwich. The village, which is of small extent, is situated on the Droitwich canal and the river Salwarpe; the latter takes its rise under Lickey hills, thence flows 14 miles S.W. past Bromsgrove, Stoke-Prior, and Droitwich, to the Severn, at Hawford Bridge. Salwarpe, in Leland's time, was called Salop. The celebrated Earl of Warwick, Richard Beauchamp, was born here in 1351.

The inhabitants are chiefly engaged in agriculture. The tithes have been commuted for land under an Enclosure Act in 1813, and the glebe comprises 306 acres. The living is a rectory* [the asterisk denotes that there is a parsonage and glebe belonging to the living] in the diocese of Worcester, value £520. The church, dedicated to St. Michael, has a tower containing six bells. The interior of the church contains the effigy of a priest, also a monument to T. Talbot, bearing date 1613. The chancel was reconstructed in 1848, and the body and roof of the church were improved. The parochial charities produce about £45 per annum, of which £25 goes to Barker's school. R. A. Douglas Gresley, Esq., of High Park, is lord of the manor."

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