Hill Croome Explained

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]

History

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]

Notes and References

  1. http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=43130 British History on-line
  2. http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/WOR/HillCroome/index.html Genuki details
  3. http://worcestershire.whub.org.uk/home/cs-research-census-populationreport.pdf Census data
    • 'Parishes: Pershore, St Andrew with Defford and Wick', in A History of the County of Worcester: Volume 4, ed. William Page and J W Willis-Bund (London, 1924), pp. 163–177 http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/worcs/vol4/pp163-177 [accessed 30 August 2015]
  4. The Victoria County History of Worcestershire, online at - http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/worcs/vol3/pp319-322