Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for ALVECHURCH

ALVECHURCH, a village and a parish in Bromsgrove district, Worcester. The village stands adjacent to the Worcester and Birmingham canal, and to the Redditch branch of the Bristol and Birmingham railway, near Ryknield-Street, 5 miles NE of Bromsgrove; and it has a station on the railway, and a post office† under Bromsgrove. It was formerly a borough; and it had, from the time of Henry II. till the time of Charles I., a palace of the Bishops of Worcester. Fairs are held on 3 May and 11 Aug. The parish is cut, for local purposes, into the sections of Yields of Town-Green, Barn-Green, Ferrill with Hopwood, and Lea End. Acres, 6,747. Real pro perty, £12,518. Pop. 1,713. Houses, 352. The property is much subdivided. A chief residence is Bordesley Park, 1½ mile SE of the village. A tunnel of the canal, nearly 3 miles long, begins at Hopwood. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Worcester. Value, £1,200.* Patron, the Bishop of Worcester. The church, excepting the tower, was recently rebuilt, at a cost of £3,200. There are a mission chapel, a Baptist chapel, an endowed school with £36 a year, and charities £33. Moore, the nonconformist, and Hicks, the author of "Thesanrus," were rectors.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village and a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Alvechurch AP/CP       Bromsgrove RegD/PLU       Worcestershire AncC
Place: Alvechurch

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