Worcestershire. North Claines
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DffiECTORY.J WORCESTERSHIRE. NORTH CLAINES. 43 dates from the year 1540. The living is a rectory, average Parish Clerk, George Lane. tithe rent-charge £223, net yearly value £320, including PosT 0FFICE.-Mrs. Jane Brooks, receiver. Letters received 103 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of Viscount through Kidderminster at 8 a.m. & 3.30 ; dispatched Cobham, and held since 1888 by the Rev. Charles William at 5.30 p.m. The nearest money order & telegraph office Barnard M.A. of Oriel College, Oxford. Viscount Cobham is Hagley is lord of the manor and principal landowner. The soil is Free Parochial School (mixed), with a. yearly endowment of sandy; subsoil, sand rock. The chief crops are wheat, bar about £4o, arising from property bequeathed by one ley and green crops. The acreage of the parish is 903 ; rate Richard Penne, with residence for the mistress ; the school able value, £I,6ro; the population in IBgr was I5I. will hold 57 children; average attendance, 45; Miss Annie IsMERE is half a mile north-west; Wannerton, I mile Teague, mistress south-west. Railway Station, William Morris, station master Bache Thomas Philip, Stakenbridge Brooks Jane (Mrs. ),shopkpr.&post office Parkes Thomas, farmer Barnard Rev. Charles Wm.M.A.Rectory Butler John Rawlinson, farmer, Wall John, wheelwright & beer retailer Jobson Mrs. Churchill court Churchill farm Whit taker Elizabeth (Mrs.), farmer, Jones Thomas, Churchill house Creed Henry, head gamekeeper to Iverley farm Perks Mrs. The Briars Viscount Cobham Whrttaker Joseph, Waggon & Horses Trow William, Ismere house Heath Frederick Parr, farmer P.H. Ismere Young Thomas, The Firs Lavender William, shopkeeper Wilson John William, miller (water), COMMEUCIAL. Mat thews J oseph, farm bailiff to Philip Churchill mill Bache Brothers, spade & shovel makers Addison Williams esq Wood George Edward, coal & lime mer & farmers, Stakenbridge CHURCHILL, near Worcester, is a small parish, 5 charge £r8o, net yearly value £r85, now much reduced, miles north-west from Pershore station on the Evesham and with residence, in the gift of Robert Berkeley esq. D.L., J. P. Worcester section of the Great Western railway, 5 east from and held since 1863 by the Rev. William An drew Faulkner Worcester and 7~ south from Droitwieh, in the Western B.A. of Hertford College, Oxford. The sum of £6, arising division of the county, Halfshire hundred, union of Pershore, from property left by Thomas Barker esq. and others, is dis petty sessional division and county court district of Worres- tributed among the poor annually. In the lower part of tbe ter, Eastern division of the rural deanery of Worcester and parish is a small spa of medicinal water, and also a strong archdeaconry and diocese of Worcester. The Crowle brook petrifying spring. Robert Berkeley esq. D.L., J.P. of Spetch runs to the east of the parish. The church of St. Michaelis ley Park, is lord of the manor and principal landowner. The a small but ancient building uf stone about 70 feet in length, soil is clay; subsoil, clay. The chief crops are wheat, barley in the Early English style, and consists of chancel, nave, and beans. The area is 924 acres; rateable value, £7-l-2; south porch and a western turret of mean design, containing the population in r8gr was 54· 2 bells, one of which bears the inscription: "A.R. I7I3. Pros- Parish Clerk, William Somerton. perity to this place:" the church was repaired in r863, the Letters received at 8 a. m. & dispatched at 5·35p.m. through roof being re-tiled, and the walls propped up by a series of Worcester, which is the nearest money order office ; the buttresses, at a cost of £r87, of which £147 was furnished nearest telegraph office is at Spetchley goods station by the rector: there are 94 sittings. The register dates from The children of this place attend the National District school the year rs6r. The living is a discharged rectory, tithe rent- at Bredicot Faulkner Rev. Wm.Andrew B.A.Rectory IBullockHenry,farmer,LowerTown farm j Shanks John, farmer Bourne William, miller (water) Jackson Geo. farmer, .Town's End farm NORTH C LAINES is a parish to the north of the esq. is a mansion situated at Beveregreen. Perdiswell Hall, city of \Vorcester,and under the provisions of the "'orcester the seat of Henry Walker esq. D.L. is a handsome mansion, Extension Act, 1885, was designated by its·present name, on situated on the Droitwich road. ·The Ecclesiastical Corn and after the 3oth Sept. r885, having been at that date con- missioners, who are lords of the manor, Sir Offiey Wakeman stituted a parish formed out of the ancient parish of Claines, bart. J .P., D. L. uf Rorrington Lodge, Salop, the trustees of the remaining portion being included in the city of Worces- the late Josiah Stallard esq.F. Curtler esq. of Bevere, Alfred ter, and called South Claines, fur which see under "'orcester. Catchmayd Hooper esq. of ·worcester, and Henry Walker North Claines is in the ·western division of the county, esq. D.L. are the principal landowners. The chief crops are Lower Oswaldslow hundred, Droitwich union, Worcester wheat, barley, beans and seeds. The area is 3,530 acres; petty sessional division and county court district, eastern rateable value, £r5,336; the population in 188r of the an division of the rural deanery of Worcester and archdeaconry cient parish of Claines was ro,2r2; that of the parish of and diocese of Worcester. Claines was originally a chapelry North Claines is about r,8oo. to St. Helen's, "'orcester: but in 1218 became a separate FERNHILL IlEATH, I mile north-east, is a hamlet, with a parish divided into several hamlets and including the an- station on the Great Western railway. The kennels of the cient manor of Northwic.:k. In r88o, by the Divided Par- Worcestershire Hunt are here, about 3 miles north from ishes Act, a detached part of the parish known as Smite Worcester; Frederick Ames esq. is the master. A ~Iission Hill was annexed to Hindlip. The Worcester and Dudley Room, of brick, with Bath stone dressings, was erected here section of .the Great Western railway has a station at Fern- in 18791 from designs by ~r. ,V, B. Morgan, of Birmingham, hill Heath in this parish. The church of St. John the Bap- at a cost of £r,2oo, defrayed by H. Allsop esq. M.P. inclucl tist, formerly a chapel attached to St. Helen's, Worcester, ing the boundary wall and wrought iron fencing; the build is an ancient building in the Perpendicular style, consisting ing is about 6o by 25 feet, with a moveable partition at the of chancel, nave, aisles, north and south chapels, north and east end and has a vestry, south-east porch, and a. small south porches and an embattled western tower, with pin- turret at the east end containing one bell: tbere are 200 nacles, containing 5 bells: the stained east window is adorn ea sittings. with the royal and episcopal arms: the organ was presented BEVERE,N'orthwick andAstwood are hamlets. The island by the late Sir Henry Wakeman bart.: the church contains oJ Beveni afforded an asylum to the inhabitants of Worcester, many ancient monuments, some of which date from 1577, first in ro4r, when on their refusal to pay the Danegelt, and was restored in r887 at a cost of£4,ooo, when it was re- they were exposed to the fury of Harthacnut, and again in seated with open benches, the roofs opened out and a new 1637, when they fled hither tu avoid a pestilence which had north aisle, vestry and organ chamber built: the north attacked the city. The area is 260 acres. chapel retains a piscina and a very small font: the staircase AsTwoon is 1~ miles south, Bevere three quarters of a to the rood loft also remains: there is a memorial window mile north-west and NORTHWICK, I south-west. to Hy. Pidcock, d. r862: the pavement of the chancel is an TAPENHALL is a hamlet near the railway station. unique work in mosaic, showing the descent of Christ from Parish Clerk (St. John the Baptist), Moses Gregory. Jesse: there are 380 sittings, 190 of which are free. The PosT, M. 0. & T. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office. register dates from the year 1538. The living is a yicarage, -Fernhill Heath, John Hill, receiver. Letters arriye average tithe rent-charge £2o, net yearly value £244 with from Worcester at 8 a.m. ; dispatched at s.ro p.m 23 acres of glebe and residence, in the gift of the Bishop of National School (mixed & infants), built in 18so, for 81 Worcester, and held since r883 by the Rev. Alfred Stephen- boys, 81 girls & 63 infants; average attendance, 61 boys, son Porter M.A. of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. 58 girls & 58 infants; Waiter Kibblewhite, master; ~Irs. There are various charities in the parish, amongst which is Harriette Kibblewhite, mistress ; Miss Hannah Hill, one left by the late Sir Henry Wakeman bart. of the interest infants' mistress of £200 for the benefit of the poor. The Worcester Ceme- Railway Station, Fernhill Heath, Worthy Kettlety, station tery is in this parish. Bevere House, the seat of F. Curtler master l'RIVATE RESIDENTS. Castle Mrs. Hawford house Daniels John, Fernhill heath Ames Frederick J.P. Hawford lodge Copple Mrs. Fernhill heath Davidson Wm. Jn.Oakfield,Fernhill hth Beauchamp Arthur James, Elmhurst Crump Miss, Northwick house Day John Currell Robt.Little Perdiswell Bird Geo~eAdam,Glenthorn brickfields Cnrtler Frederick, Bevere house Dum•an John Corbett, Little Perdiswell Brook William, Hill cottage, Be,•ere Curtler Martin, Bevere knoll Fosbroke George Haynes, Rose place .