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PBHQ  PARISH MASTER LIST

The Go West Heritage Knights are challenging heritage detectives to discover which parishes in the Pershore Hundred belonged to Pershore Abbey (St Mary) and which belonged to Westminster Abbey (St Peter).

FOR INFORMATION

THE HUNDRED OF PERSHORE 1904 as recorded in THE HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WORCESTER edited by William Page and J Willis-Bund  (London 1924). 

 

Nearly the whole district now comprised in the hundred of Pershore originally belonged to Pershore Abbey having probably formed part of its earlier endowments.  In a Charter of King Edgar dated 972. the lands granted are said to have seen given to the Abbey by Coenwulf, Edgar’s predecessor at the request of the ealdorman Beornorth.

Nearly half of this property was taken from Pershore Abbey and later given by Edward the Confessor as the Manor of Pershore to the refounded monastery at Westminster. In the Domesday Survey the hundred of Pershore is not mentioned, but the lands afterwards contained in it were then comprised in the possessions of Westminster Abbey belonging to the Manor of Pershore and the lands of St. Mary of Pershore (see the rest of the article in Bristish History Online: The Hundred of PershoreI Introduction.)

Until the Dissolution of the Monasteries the Hundred of Pershore was shared by the Abbots of Westminster and Pershore and in 1542 was granted to the Dean and Chapter of Westminster as all those lets and views of frank[ledge of *Calcot and Rydgrene* and it has since remained in the possession of the dean and chapter.

 

Calcot was in the town of Pershore, near the site of the abbey(today a street carries the name)

Rhyd Green is on the boundary between Hanley Castle and Malvern

FOR INFORMATION:  These are the parishes included in the 1904 list.

ABBERTON*

ALDERMINSTER

BEOLEY*

BESFORD

BELLINGHAM

BIRTSMORTON

BROADWAY*

BROUGHTON HACKETT*

BUSHLEY

CASTLEMORTON

CHACELEY

GREAT COMBERTON*

LITTLE COMBERTON*

DORMSTON

ECKINGTON

ELDERSFLIELD

FLYFORD FLAVEL*

GRAFTON FLYFORD

HANLEY CASTLE

LEIGH WITH BRANSFORD*

LONGDON

MADRESFIELD

GREAT MALVERN WITH NEWLAND

MARTIN HUSSINGTREE*

MATHON

NAUNTON BEAUCHAMP*

PEOPLETON*

BOROUGH OF PERSHORE

PERSHORE, HOLY CROSS WITH WADBOROUGH AND WALCOT CUM MEMERIS

PERSHORE, ST ANDREW WITH DEFFORD PENSHAM, PINVIN* & WICK*

NORTH PIDDLE*

PIRTON*

POWICK WITH CLEVELODE AND WOODSFIELD

SEVERN STOKE*

STAUNTON

STRENSHAM*

UPTON SNODSBURY*

UPTON UPON SEVERN*

 

NOTE

PLACES IN BOLD - already covered

PLACES WITH * currently under investigation and for which photographs are needed. 

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THE PERSHORE HUNDRED and the modern DEANERY OF PERSHORE
A list of the places included in the Pershore Hundred in 1904 and a list of the places today one might expect to be in the Pershore Hundred.
THE MASTER LIST.pdf
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A Map of the Worcestershire Hundreds.
For information only - not for reproduction.
The Hundred of Pershore and Map.pdf
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MORE INFORMATION
These are the  places with Anglican churches today that are included in the Deanery of Pershore. One might imagine that they were all in the Pershore Hundred but were they?

Abberton* 

Flyford Flavell 

Grafton Flyford. 

North Piddle

Naunton Beauchamp

Bishampton

Bredon

Bredon’s Norton

Defford cum Besford

Eckington

Elmley Castle w Netherton

Bricklehampton

Great Comberton

Little Comberton

Fladbury 

Wyre Piddle

Moor

Cropthorne w Charlton

Overbury 

Teddington

Alstone

Beckford

Ashton-under-Hill

Peopleton

White Ladies Aston w Churchill

Spetchley

Upton Snodsbury

Broughton Hackett

Pershore Holy Cross

Pinvin

Wick

Birlingham

Stoulton w Drakes Broughton

Pirton

Norton juxta Kempsey

 

NOTE. The parishes in bold were all investigated by heritage detectives in the PBHQ. The remainder need to be investigated.  Download a working copy of this list and see if you can fill in the gaps.

 

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