WORCESTER ST. JOHN BEDWARDINE - Extract from National Gazetteer, 1868

"WORCESTER ST. JOHN BEDWARDINE, (or Bedwardine St. John's), a parish in the hundred of Oswaldslow, in the county of Worcester, partly within the bounds of the city of Worcester. It lies on the west bank of the river Severn, and contains the village of Wick Episcopi, situated on the river Teme, near its confluence with the Severn. Bread and provisions were supplied to the monks of Worcester from this place, from which circumstance its name is supposed to be derived.

The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Worcester, of the value of £635, in the patronage of the dean and chapter. The church is ancient, partly in the perpendicular and partly in the Norman style of architecture. The charitable endowments of the parish, including a tree school, amount to £96 a year. An annual fair was formerly held on the Friday before Palm Sunday, when the mayor and corporation of Worcester, attended by various officers, walked in procession through the town. This custom, which had existed since the reign of Edward IV., is now obsolete.

"BOUGHTON, a village in the parish of Worcester St. John Bedwardine, and hundred of Oswaldslow, in the county of Worcester, 2 miles from Worcester. Boughton House is the principal residence."
"HENWICK, a hamlet in the hundred of Lower Oswaldslow, county Worcester, 1 mile N.W. of Worcester by the Worcester and Malvern railway, on which it is a station. It is situated near the junction of the river Teme with the Severn. The principal residences are Henwick House and Henwick Lodge."
"WICK EPISCOPI, a township and village in the parish of Worcester St. John Bedwardine, lower division of Oswaldslow hundred, county Worcester, 2 miles S.W. of Worcester. It is situated on the river Tame, near the Severn, and comprises Upper and Lower Wick."

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