Croome D'Abitot
| Croome D'Abitot | |
| Worcestershire | |
|---|---|
 St Mary Magdalene's Church | |
| Location | |
| Location: | 52°6’8"N, 2°10’23"W |
| Data | |
| Post town: | Worcester |
| Postcode: | WR8 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Malvern Hills |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
West Worcestershire |
Croome D'Abitot is a village and parish in the Oswaldslow hundred of Worcestershire. The parish church of St Mary Magdalene is situated in the grounds of Croome Court.[1] The civil parish shares a joint parish council with the adjacent civil parish of Severn Stoke.
History
Known today as Croome / Croome d'Abitot / Earl's Croome / Earls Croome, it is listed within the hundred of Oswaldslow as being land owned by the bishop of Worcester (St Mary) in both 1066 and 1086.[2] The first Norman sheriff of Worcester, Urse d'Abetot, controlled many lands of the church. Through his daughter Emmeline, Urse is an ancestor of the Beauchamp family, who eventually became Earls of Warwick.
Croome D'Abitot was once part of the Royal forest of Horewell. The woodlands were mostly removed around the time of the Civil War.[3]
Croome D'Abitot is the place where the famous Anglican Bible commentator John Trapp was born.[4]
References
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Croome D'Abitot) |
- ↑ Bridges, Tim Churches of Worcestershire, 2005ed Logaston Press ISBN 1-904396-39-9 p74
- ↑ Open Domesday Online: Croome (d'Abitot) and (Earl's) Croome, accessed July 2018.
- ↑ * '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]
- ↑ {{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=encyclopaedia }}
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