WICK NEAR PERSHORE, Worcestershire

"WICK NEAR PERSHORE, a chapelry in the parish of Pershore St. Andrew, county Worcester, 1 mile S.E. of Pershore, of which it is a suburb. An Austin priory was founded here in the reign of Stephen by Peter de Corbezon, who a few years afterwards removed it to Studley, in Warwickshire. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Worcester, value £110. The church is dedicated to St. Lawrence."

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