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Redditch in Worcester County England History and GeographyREDDITCH, a chapelry in that part of the parish of TARDEBIGG which is in the upper division of the hundred of HALFSHIRE, county of WORCESTER, 5¾ miles (E.S.E.) from Bromsgrove. The population is returned with the parish. This flourishing village, which has the appearance of a small market town, is pleasantly situated on a commanding eminence near the Warwickshire border, on the new line of road from London to Birmingham, and contains, besides a neat modern chapel of ease, places of worship for Independents and Wesleyan Methodists. The principal articles of manufacture, for which it has long been famous, are needles and fish-hooks, which have been brought to perfection, and afford employment to about four thousand persons in the village and neighbourhood. There are fairs for cattle, on the first Monday in August, and third Monday in September, and it is in contemplation to petition the legislature for the privilege of holding a weekly market. A National school is attended by about ninety boys, and supported by the Earl of Plymouth, who has an elegant mansion in the vicinity, and holds a court leet annually in October, as lord of the manor, at which a constable and other officers are appointed. A Cistercian abbey of considerable note formerly existed at Bordesley, near this place, some slight remains of which may still be traced: it was founded, in 1138, by the Empress Matilda, in honour of the Blessed Virgin, and was valued at the dissolution at £392. 8. 6., when it was granted to Lord Windsor, one of the ancestors of the present Earl of Plymouth. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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