Peopleton
| Peopleton | |
| Worcestershire | |
|---|---|
 Village shop and post office | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SO938504 |
| Location: | 52°9’7"N, 2°5’30"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 640 |
| Post town: | Pershore |
| Postcode: | WR10 |
| Dialling code: | 01905 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Wychavon |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Mid Worcestershire |
Peopleton is a village and parish in the Pershore Hundred of Worcestershire. In 2001 the parish had a population of 640, with 245 households.[1]
Location
Peopleton is located about seven miles south-east of Worcester and three miles north of Pershore. The parish is bounded by Bow Brook to the west, Piddle Brook to the east and the A44 to the south.[2]
The parish is bounded by the parishes of White Ladies Aston, Upton Snodsbury, Naunton Beauchamp, Throckmorton, Pinvin, Drakes Broughton & Wadborough and Stoulton.
Amenities
The village church is dedicated to Saint Nicholas, and is in the Diocese of Worcester. It dates from the 13th century with modifications in the 14th and 19th centuries.
Opposite the church in the centre of the village lies the Crown Inn public house.
In December 2010 the long-established village shop and post office became a community shop, with a legal structure based on the Plunkett Foundation rules.[3] In February 2011 it was featured on an edition of the BBC Countryfile programme focusing on Worcestershire .[4] A tea room was opened during celebrations of the first anniversary of the community shop in December 2011.[5]
The village hall and playing fields are on the northern edge of the village. The village hall is home to the Peopleton Scout Group.[6]
The village school was closed after the Second World War, and the building is now used as a private residence.[7] The only school in the village is now Bowbrook House School, an independent day school,[8] situated in a mansion at the south end of the village. This house was previously occupied by parish benefactor Caroline Baroness Norton, and later by the mother of Barbara Cartland; in the Second World War it was used by Morgan Crucible to accommodate European Voluntary Workers.[7]
To the north of Peopleton the track to White Ladies Aston fords Bow Brook at Barrels Bridge.[9]
After the extensive floods in 2007 when a quarter of the houses in Peopleton were flooded, Peopleton Parish Council raised money for a drainage system to reduce the effects of any future flooding.[10]
Public transport
A bus service operated by N.N. Cresswell links Peopleton to Upton Snodsbury, Pershore, and Drakes Broughton.
Pershore railway station is the closest passenger railway station.
History
The place-name 'Peopleton' is first attested in a Saxon charter of 972, where it appears as Piplincgtun. It appears as Piplintune in the Domesday Book of 1086. The name means 'the town or settlement of Pyppel's people'.[11]
The Worcestershire map in John Speed's Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine refers to Peopleton as "Pippleton".[12]
In 2018 the village was named Cricket Village of the Year by the Ex - England ODI Cricket Captain James Tredwell
Notable residents
- John Days, Worcestershire cricketer in the 1900s, was born in Peopleton.
- Jeremy Paxman, television presenter, was brought up in Yorkshire and Peopleton.
- John Snow, professional cricketer in the 1960s and 1970s, was born in Peopleton.
- Giles Turberville (died March 1689), a prosperous local farmer, left "to the poor of Peopleton 6 shillings and 8 pence" in his Will.
Notes
- ↑ "Worcestershire County Council : 2001 Census Worcestershire County Population Report". Worcestershire Council. Archived from the original on 2007-09-27. https://web.archive.org/web/20070927003043/http://worcestershire.whub.org.uk/home/cs-research-census-populationreport.pdf. Retrieved 2007-09-05.
- ↑ "'Parishes: Peopleton', A History of the County of Worcester: volume 4 (1924), pp. 147-150.". British History Online. http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=42871. Retrieved 2007-09-05.
- ↑ "Peopleton Community Shop". Plunkett Community Shop Network. http://www.plunkett.uk.net/shop/peopleton-community-shop. Retrieved 2011-11-02.
- ↑ "Countryfile 27/02/2011". BBC. 2011-02-27. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00z7hc8.
- ↑ "Peopleton people celebrate community shop anniversary". Evesham Journal. 2011-12-08. http://www.eveshamjournal.co.uk/news/9406958.Peopleton_people_celebrate_community_shop_anniversary/.
- ↑ http://www.peopletonscouts.com/
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 "Peopleton". http://www.visitoruk.com/evesham/peopleton-C592-V26800.html. Retrieved 2013-06-04.
- ↑ "Bowbrook House School". http://www.bowbrookhouseschool.co.uk/. Retrieved 2011-11-02.
- ↑ "Peopleton". wetroads.co.uk. http://www.wetroads.co.uk/worcestershire.htm#peopleton.
- ↑ "Flood protection for deluged Worcestershire village". BBC. 2010-06-02. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10215655.
- ↑ Eilert Ekwall, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-names, p.363.
- ↑ "John Speed proof maps". Cambridge University Library. 1612. http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/deptserv/maps/speed.html. Retrieved 2 September 2011.
References
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- "Peopleton". A History of the County of Worcester: volume 4 (1924), pp. 147-150.. http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=42871. Retrieved 2011-05-18.
- "Parish Records". Worcester Branch of the Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy and Heraldry. http://www.worcesterbmsgh.co.uk/Peopleton.html. Retrieved 2011-05-18.
- "Map of 1850 parish boundary". Worcestershire Council. http://worcestershire.whub.org.uk/cms/images/Census_OldParish_Peopleton.jpg. Retrieved 2011-05-18.
- Peopleton Flood Defence on YouTube
- Burfitt, Peter; Emmins, Celia; Piercy, Nicky (2004). Peopleton Times 1.