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Blockley in Worcester County England History and GeographyBLOCKLEY, a parish situated in a detached portion of the upper division of the hundred of OSWALDSLOW, county of WORCESTER, surrounded by Gloucestershire, comprising the hamlets of Aston Magna, Blockley, Ditchford, Dorne, Draycott, Northwich, and Paxford, and containing 1890 inhabitants, of which number, 1158 are in the hamlet of Blockley, 3¾ miles (N.W. by W.) from Moreton in the Marsh. The living is a vicarage in the archdeaconry of Gloucester, and diocese of Worcester, rated in the king's books at £54, and in the patronage of the Bishop of Worcester. The church is dedicated to St. Peter and St. Paul. A neat chapel has recently been erected by the Baptists. The village, which is situated on elevated ground, contains several neat dwelling-houses, and presents a clean and pleasing exterior: here are several silk-mills, worked by small streams which rise in Dovedale, a short distance hence. Fairs are held on the Tuesday next after Easter-week, for cattle, and October 10th, for hiring servants. A charity school has an endowment for the instruction of boys. Pursuant to a statute passed in the 9th of George IV., the magistrates for the county came to a resolution, at the general quarter sessions held at Worcester, in Oct. 1829, to alter the divisions of the county, making Blockley the head of one division, the petty sessions for which are held here. The Bishop of Worcester is lord of the manor, and, by his steward, occasionally holds a manorial court. Previously to the Reformation, here was a palace in which the prelates resided, but the only memorial of it is in the name of a hill opposite to the vicarage, called the Parks. In a charter of King Burthred, dated in 855, mention is made of a monastery, which then existed, and which was subsequently annexed to the bishopric of Worcester. The Roman fosseway passed between this village and Moreton in the Marsh. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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