Hill Croome

Human settlement in England

Hill Croome

District

Malvern Hills

Worcestershire

Region

West Midlands

CountryEnglandSovereign stateUnited KingdomPost townWorcesterPostcode districtWR8PoliceWest MerciaFire Hereford and Worcester Ambulance West Midlands UK Parliament

West Worcestershire

List of places: UK; England; Worcestershire

52°03′45″N 2°09′59″W / 52.062384°N 2.166367°W / 52.062384; -2.166367

Hill Croome is a village, and a civil parish which covers 1000 acres, in the Malvern Hills District in the county of Worcestershire, England.^[1] Historically a parish in the lower division of the hundred of Oswaldslow,^[2] according to the 2001 census the parish had a population of 169.^[3] Hill Croome was once part of the Royal forest of Horewell.^[4]

History

A heritable messuage of land and a close in the hamlet of Baughton, which also lies in Hill Croome parish, were held in 1591 by John Turberville and his wife Joan under a lease from Thomas Walshe, Lord the Manor of Hill Croome.^[5]

References

^ British History on-line
^ Genuki details
^ Census data Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine
^ * 'Parishes: Pershore, St Andrew with Defford and Wick', in A History of the County of Worcester: Volume 4, ed. William Page and J W Willis-Bund (London, 1924), pp. 163–177 http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/worcs/vol4/pp163-177 [accessed 30 August 2015]
^ The Victoria County History of Worcestershire, online at - http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/worcs/vol3/pp319-322