AB LENCH

Index
Descriptive Notes
Status
Location
Hundred
Poor Law Union
Census Records
Search Services (Fee paying)
Manorial Records
Directories

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

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:
All the censuses between 1841 and 1901 are now available on a number of fee-paying (Subscription or PayAsYouGo) sites including Ancestry.co.uk, FindMyPast.co.uk, thegenealogist.co.uk and genesreunited.co.uk. The 1911 census is available in full or in part on some of these sites. We are unable to advise on the choice of site since researchers' personal preferences will be influenced by the content and search facilities offered by each site. Some sites offer a free trial.

Access to the library edition of Ancestry.co.uk is widely available at most record offices, including Worcestershire Library and History Centre, and some libraries. You are advised to book time on their computers before making a visit. 

A free-to-view site is being developed at freecen.org.uk for the 1841, 1851, 1861, 1871 and 1891 censuses.  Coverage of Worcestershire parishes is rather sparse at this time.

Census returns can usually be viewed at Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints' Family History Centres.

Some repositories offer census details on microform, disc or printed copy. These include:
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

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]

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© Arthur Lewis and contributors 2008
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Last updated on 1st February 2012

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