' DIREC10R •• . '\VORCESTERSHIRE. HI~DLIP. 141 HEADLEY HEATH, see Wythall. HILL CBOOME is a village and parish, 3 miles east who is also rector of and resides at Earls Croome. from Upton station on the Tewkesbury and Malvern Cotterill's charity of £13, besides three tenements, i& line of the Midland railway and 6 south--west from distributed yearly to the poor in coals by the rector Pershore, in the Southern division of the county, and churchwardens. The principal landowner is the hundred of Lower Oswaldslow, Upton petty sessional Earl of Coventry P.O. lord-lieutenant, who is lord ot division and union, Pershore county court district, the manor. The soil is clay and loam; subsoil, clay. rural deanery of Bredon, archdeaconry and diocese of The chief crops are wheat and beans. The area is 993 Worcester. The church of St. Mary is a small build­ acres; rateable value, £1,241; the population illf 190i ing of stone, in mixed styles, consisting of chancel, was 187. nave, south porch and a western tower, with saddle­ Sexton, Frederick Smith. back roof, restored in 1894, containing 3 bells~ the east window is a memorial to Thomas J ames W elles, of Baughton is a hamlet, tl miles north-west and 2i Baughton Court, and was presented by his widow 20 miles north-east from Upton-on-Severn. " Oet. 186o: there is also a tablet in the chancel to Letters from Worcester, through Earls Croome, arrivtt Thomas James We-lles and Harriet his widow, 1864: at 9 a.m. & 5-30 p.m. Letter Box, near the Church, the church was restored in 1907 at a cost of £67o, and cleared at 8.40 a.m. & 5.40 p.m. week days only. affords 100 sittings. The register dates from the year Letter Box, Baughton, cleared at 8.2oa.m. & 6.25 p.m 1559· The living is a rectory, net yearly value £120, week days only. Upton-on-Severn is the nearest including 124 acres of glebe, in the gift of the Lord money order & telegraph office Chancellor, and held since 1905 by the Rev. George Le The children of this parish attend the school at Earls Stral)ge Amphlett M.A. of Magdalen College, Oxford, Croome Arkell Henry, Glebe house Cull Charles, fanner, The Firs Smith Frederick, sexton, Baughton Wilson Waiter James, Manor farm Glover Thomas, fal"II}Elr Tustin William, farmer, -Baughton Hull Charles, shopke'eper, Baughton Williams Thomas & George, farmers-,. COMMKRCIA.L. Morgan Henry, farmer, Bauehton Baughton hill Barker Arthur, New inn, Baughton Robinson William, farmer, Baughton Wilson Wait. Jas. farmer, Manor frm HIMBLETON is a village and parish, 6 miles south- Mere Hall, Bianbury, and H. C. Willis esq. The soil ii!J east from Droitwich station on the Great Western heavy and mixed, but principally clay;- subsoil, various; railway, 3 south-south-east of Dunhampstead goods lime of a 8uperior quality is obtained. The 'Chief station and 4 south-east of Droitwich Road goods crops are wheat, beans and barley; hops are also station, each on the Midland railway, 7 north-east from cultivated to a small extent. The area is 2,363 acre• Worcester and 120 from London, in the Mid division of of land and 10 of water; rateable value, £3,362 ~ the the county, Middle Oswaldslow hundred, Droitwich population in 1901 was 392. petty sessional division, union and county court dis­ trict, rural deanery of Droitwich and archdeaconry and SHELL, formerly ~ separate parish, is now par~ of diocese of Worcester. A stream called "Bow Brook" Himbleton, to which it was annexed in 1884: it is » runs thraugh the village. The church of St. Mary mile north, and consists of two farm-houses and a fe1'f Magdalene is an ancient building of stone, in the Early cottages; Col. E. H. Bearcroft C. B. ia lord of the manor English, Decorated and Perpendicular styles, consisting and principal landowner. of chancel, nave, south transeptal chapel, north aisle, wooden south porch and a western tower of wood con­ EARLS OOMMON is a hamlet I mile east ; Phepson taining 4 bells : many fragments of old glass still linger is a small •hamlet about 1 mile north; Saleway is a in the windows : over the east window are the Royal small hamlet 2 miles north-west; Dunhampstead is a Arms of Queen Elizabeth, painted on the plaster: in small hamlet 2! miles north-west, partly in this parisb the chapel is a flat slab of cast iron, with an inscrip­ and partly in Oddingley, with a goods station on the tion to Philip Fincher, ob. 166o, and his wife, ob. 169o : Midland railway; Shernal Green i'l another hamlet 3 the communion plate includes a cup, dated 1656, the miles north--west; the two latter hamlets are close to gift of Mr. John Fincher: there are 160 sittings. The the Worcester and Birmingham canal. register datc>s from the year 1713. The living is a Parish Clerk, Rawson Guise. vicarage, net yearly value £290, including II5 acres of Post, M. 0. & T. Office. James Fincher, sub-post­ Jll<>be, with residence, in the gift of the Dean and master. Letters through Droitwich delivered about Chapter of Worcester, and •held since 1911 by the Rev. 8.15 a.m.; dispatched at 5.15 p.m. week days&; 10.30 Clement Erne-st Newcomb M.A. of Queen's College, a. m. sundays; no sunday delivery Oxford, "'ll·ho is also vicar of Huddington. Various Wall Letter Box, Shernal Green, cleared at 6.30 p.rn charities bequeathed to the poor of the parish are now week days & 11.45 a.m. sundays lost. Himbleton Manor, which commands an exten­ sive view of the neighbouring country, including the Public Elementary School (mixed), erected, with house Malvern Hills, is the seat of Mrs. Gascoyne. The for the mistress, in 1873, for 68 children; average Ecclesiastical Commissioners are lords of the manor. attendance, 45 ; Miss Alice Dean, mistres!' The principal landowners are the Eccles-iastical Com­ Carriers. Robert Small, to Worcester, on sat.; George missioners, Col. Edward Hugh Bearcroft C.B., J.P. of Osborne, to Bromsgrove, tues. & Droitwich, fri PRIVA'l'E RESIDENTS. Cooper Samuel, stone quarries Jackson Jos9ph, farmer, Court farm Adderley Hon. Ronald Wols.tan Fleet- Dixon T. &; M. etone quarries.Saleway Jackson Tom, farmer, Woodhouse wood, Brook house Fincher Albert, farmer, Neight hill farm, Saleway Bearcroft George Edward Henry J.P. Fincher John, cider ;retailer Jones James Percy, farmer Fepsinton Fincher Sampson, head gardener to Marshall Geo. M. farmer, Phepson Gascoyne Mrs. Himbleton manor Mrs. Gascoyne Osborne Geo. carrier, Earls common Newcomb Rev. Clement Ernest M.A. Fletcher Geo. farmer, Lower Saleway Potter Leonard L.Drainers' Arms P.H (vicar), Vicarage Ford Charles, fanner, Shell farm Rogers William, blacksmith Radcliffe Bernard, The C~>tlage, Dun- Gibbs Philip, farmer, Dunhampstead Seager Austin,farmer & miller(water)" hampstead Gittus Eli C. Galton Arms P.H Small Herbert, farmer, Sale.way Willis Harry C. Salden Gittus Geo. wheelwrig-ht, Earls corn Small Robert, carrier, Earls common COMMERCIAL. Gould Jack, farmer, Ph9pson Thomas Harry, farmer, Owl's End Burford Wm. farmer, Dunhampstead Greenhill James, shoe maker HINDLIP (or Hinlip) is a parish I mile east from a handsome monument to Thomas Anthony, ~rd Vis­ Fernhill Heath stat·ion on the Wolverhampton and count Southwell K.P. who died 29th February, 186o, Worcester secti()n of the Great Western rail-way, 3 and Jane. his wife (1853), daughter of John Berkeley­ north-east from Worcester and 4 south-by-west from esq. of Hinlip; there is also a tablet, dated 1731, to Droitwich, in the Western division of the county, Lower HPnrv Restall, a former rector: the east window is Oswaldslow hundred, Droitwich union, Worcester petty stamed, and in the south ·aisle is a. memorial windo-w~ sessional division and county court district, rural dean- erected in 1877 by Sir Henry Allsopp hart. D.L. to ery of East Worcester and archdeaconry and diocese of George William, 4th Baron Lyttelton P.C., K.C.M.G ... Worcester. The church of St. James is a building of F.R S. d. r8 April, 1876: there is another erected in lltone, chiefly in the Decorated style, restored principally 1876 by the second Lord Hindlip and his wife to their­ by the Allsopp family, as a memorial to the ISt Lord infant son Henry, d. 10 November, 1876; besidPs three Hindlip, and to the wife of the Rev. J. S. Chesshire other stained windows: on the north wall of the navtt M. A. rector 1873-94; it consists ()f chancel, nave, south is a tablet in memory of Lady Hindlip, -wife of the first aisle and an embattled western tower containing 8 baron, and there is also a brass to the late Hon. G. H. h.lls: in thP church is an interesting emblazoned tablet Allsopp, formerly M.P. for Worcester: the church was . to Thomas Habington, ob. 1647, mentioned below, and restored in r864 and again in r888, at a cost of £5,079• .