AB LENCH

Descriptive Notes:
Also known as Hob Lench [11] [25] & Abbots Lench [14]

Directories:
HOB-LENCH, otherwise ABBOTS-LENCH, a hamlet in the parish of FLADBURY, middle division of the hundred of OSWALDSLOW, county of WORCESTER, 6¼ miles (N. by W.) from Evesham, containing 102 inhabitants. Here was formerly a chapel, which has gone to decay. [Topographical Dictionary of England 1831 by Samuel Lewis]

Status:
Township in Fladbury Ancient Parish. Separate Civil Parish in 1866. Abolished in 1933 entirely to Church Lench Ancient Parish [25]

Location:
O.S. Ref: SP013518
About 6 miles N.N.W. of Evesham & about 6 miles N.E. of Pershore

Hundred:
Middle Oswaldslow [11] [25]

Poor Law Union:
Evesham [3] [25]

Census Records:
Access to all the censuses between 1841 and 1901 is now widely available on the library edition of Ancestry.co.uk at most record offices. You are strongly advised to book time on their computers before making a visit.
Many commercial organisations have issued CDs and DVDs covering all the censuses from 1841 to 1901. Some repositories offer census details on microfiche as listed below:
1841-1901 at Worcestershire Library and History Centre [14]

Search Services (Fee paying) - BMSGH and Independent:
Burial Worcestershire Burial Index
Marriage see Worcestershire Marriage Index

Manorial Records:
Worcestershire Record Office [50]
Proceedings of manorial court of Morton Abbatis (in Evesham Abbey Court Book) 1543

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Last updated on 1st January 2008

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