UPTON SNODSBURY - Extract from National Gazetteer, 1868

"UPTON SNODSBURY, a parish in the upper division of Pershore hundred, county Worcester, 6 miles E. of Worcester, its post town, 5 N. of Pershore, and 2½ E. of Spetchley railway station. The village is situated on the road from Worcester to Inkberrow. The Worcestershire hounds meet in this parish, which includes the hamlet of Cawsdon. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Worcester, value £95. The church is dedicated to St. Kenelm. The parochial charities produce about £23 per annum. Lord Coventry is lord of the manor."
"COWSDON, a village in the parish of Upton-Snodsbury, in the county of Worcester. 5 miles N. of Pershore."

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