Country: | England |
Coordinates: | 52.0624°N -2.1664°W |
Official Name: | Hill Croome |
Population: | 169 |
Static Image: | Hill Croome.jpg |
Static Image Width: | 250px |
Static Image Caption: | Hill Croome Church |
Shire District: | Malvern Hills |
Shire County: | Worcestershire |
Region: | West Midlands |
Civil Parish: | Hill Croome |
Constituency Westminster: | West Worcestershire |
Postcode District: | WR8 |
Postcode Area: | WR |
Post Town: | Worcester |
Hill Croome is a village, and a civil parish which covers 1000 acres, in the Malvern Hills District in the county of Worcestershire, England.[1] Historically a parish in the lower division of the hundred of Oswaldslow,[2] according to the 2001 census the parish had a population of 169.[3] Hill Croome was once part of the Royal forest of Horewell.[4]
See also: History of Worcestershire. A heritable messuage of land and a close in the hamlet of Baughton, which also lies in Hill Croome parish, were held in 1591 by John Turberville and his wife Joan under a lease from Thomas Walshe, Lord the Manor of Hill Croome.[5]