Hill Croome
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| Hill Croome | |
| Worcestershire | |
|---|---|
 Hill Croome Church | |
| Location | |
| Location: | 52°3’45"N, 2°9’59"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 169 |
| Post town: | Worcester |
| Postcode: | WR8 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Malvern Hills |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
West Worcestershire |
Hill Croome is a village and parish in the Oswaldslow hundred of Worcestershire.[1] The civil parish had a population of 169 according to the 2001 census.[2] Hill Croome was once part of the Royal forest of Horewell.[3]
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.[4]
References
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Hill Croome) |
- ↑ British History on-line
- ↑ Census report
- ↑ * '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]
- ↑ The Victoria County History of Worcestershire, online at - http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/worcs/vol3/pp319-322
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