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Bredon in Worcester County England History and GeographyBREDON, a parish comprising the chapelries of Norton and Mitton, and the hamlets of Bredon, Hardwick Kinsham, and Westmancote in the middle division, and the chapelry of Cutsdean in the upper division, of the hundred of OSWALDSLOW, county of WORCESTER, and containing 1239 inhabitants, 3¾ miles (N.E. by N.) from Tewkesbury. The living is a rectory, in which the rector exercises peculiar jurisdiction: it is rated in the king's books at £72. 11. 0½., and is in the diocese of Worcester. John Keysall, Esq. was patron in 1806. The church, dedicated to St. Giles, has some specimens of Saxon architecture, and contains, among other monuments, one to the memory of Dr. Prideaux, who was dismissed from the bishoprick of Worcester during the parliamentary war. The river Avon flows past this parish, and separates from Gloucestershire on the west. From the summit of Bredon hill there is a pleasing view of the vales of Evesham and Cotswold, including the winding course of the Severn. About the commencement of the present century, a fissure opened in the rock in the side of this hill, nearly two hundred yards long, fifteen feet wide, and of unequal depth: the top of the hill is crowned by a Roman encampment, with a double trench. William Hancocke, in 1718, gave land, the rental of which is applied in instructing, clothing, and apprenticing twelve boys. There is also an almshouse for eight poor femalcs. Bredon was given by Ethelbald, King of Mercia, previously to the year 716, to his kinsman Eanulph, that he might found a monastery here, in honour of St. Peter, which, previously to the Conquest, was annexed to the bishoprick of Worcester. At Mitton, in this parish, are the ruins of a chapel. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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