HANLEY CASTLE

Descriptive Notes:
Sometimes early called 'Potters Hanley' [25]

Directories:
HANLEY-CASTLE, a parish in the lower division of the hundred of PERSHORE, county of WORCESTER, l¼ mile (N. N. W.) from Upton upon Severn, containing 1424 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Worcester, rated in the king's-books at £12. 15. and in the patronage of Sir Anthony Lechmere, Bart. The church is dedicated to St. Mary. There is a chapel for the Roman Catholics. Courts leet and baron are held annually. A school, founded by an ancestor of the family of Lechmere, is open to children of both sexes, who are supplied with books, and taught upon Dr. Bell's system: the endowment consists of land producing an income of £160 per annum, with a school-house and garden: the classics were originally taught, and the school had formerly two small exhibitions to Balliol College Oxford. The river Severn runs through the parish, on the margin of which there was a castle successively possessed by the Nevilles, Earls of Warwick, the De Spensers, and the Lechmeres: its remains have been converted into a farm-house. [Topographical Dictionary of England 1831 by Samuel Lewis]

Status:
Ancient Parish [25]
In 1836 Malvern Wells Ecclesiastical Parish was created from Hanley Castle Ancient Parish.

In 1894 South Malvern Civil Parish  was created from that part of Hanley Castle in Great Malvern Urban District. In 1896 a further part of Hanley Castle Ancient Parish was lost to South Malvern Civil Parish as the enlarged area of the latter was renamed "Malvern Wells Civil Parish".


Location:
O.S. Ref: SO839419
1½ miles N.W. of Upton-upon-Severn
Blackmore End is a hamlet, 3 miles N.W. of Hanley and 1 mile S.E. from Great Malvern. Rhydd is 2 miles north [along the B4424]. [57]

Parish Church:
St. Mary

Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction:
Archdeaconry & Diocese of Worcester [1] [25]

Hundred:
Lower Pershore [11] [25] [28]

Poor Law Union:
Upton-upon-Severn [3] [25]

Adjoining Parishes:
Great Malvern; Severn Stoke; Earls Croome; Ripple; Upton upon Severn; Welland; Little Malvern; Colwall (Herefordshire); Mathon [1]

Parish Registers:

		Coverage	Source
Microform at WLHC	Christenings	1538-1966	[5]
	Marriages	1539-1989	[5]
	Burials	1538-1966	[5]
Transcripts at WLHC	Christenings	C1538-1739	[27]
	Marriages	M1538-1739	[27]
	Burials	D1538-1740	[27]

Bishops' Transcripts:
Begin 1613 Worcestershire Library and History Centre [22]

International Genealogical Index (IGI):
[19]

		Coverage
Parish Registers	Births / Christenings	1538-1875
	Marriages	1539-1885

Register Copies:
Hanley Castle & Hanley Swan - Parish Records & Bishops Transcripts 1538-1740 BMSGH microfiche

At Society of Genealogists [68] :-
EASTHAM (with HANLEY CHILD & ORLETON) : Christenings 1572-1812, Marriages & Burials 1571-1812;
HANLEY WILLIAM: Christenings 1587-1812, Marriages 1588-1812, Burials 1586-1812 [Microfilm.] - Published Salt Lake City : Genealogical Society of Utah, 1972
HANLEY CASTLE (St. Mary) & HANLEY SWAN (St. Gabriel) : Births 1538-1739, Marriages 1539-83, 1599-1619, 1627-39, 1650-1739, Deaths 1538-84, 1591-1641, 1653-1740 [Microfiche.]

Monumental Inscriptions and Associated Documents:
Copy of inscriptions in the churchyard Worcestershire Record Office [12]

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 1661-1851 Worcestershire Burial Index
Marriage see Worcestershire Marriage Index

Manorial Records:
Worcestershire Record Office [50]
Court roll [1376]; Extent [c.1550]

Parish Records on microform at Worcestershire Library and History Centre [13]
Churchwardens accounts 1835-1945
Inclosure award & plan 1818
Transcript of parish register 1538-1812 with index. [20th cent] 1929

Schools Records:
The following school records are original documents. Note reference number and contact staff at Worcestershire Record Office:
Hanley Castle
Photograph of School pupils - c. 1885 - Ref: BA 10161

Hanley Castle Grammar
Photographs - late 19th - 20th century - Ref: BA 8763 / 4 (i)

Hanley Castle High
Admission registers - 1906 - 25 - Ref: BA 1033
Photograph - late 19th - 20th century - Ref: BA 8763 / 4 (i)

St Mary's C E Infants'
Log book, Infants' and Girls' School - 1891 - 1929 - Ref: BA 8850 (i)
Log book, Infants' School. Note - this school closed in July 1981 - 1929 - 81 - Ref: BA 8850 (ii)

A handlist of other records of schools and of other educational establishments held by Worcestershire Record Office for this parish can be found here.

Other Sources:
Hanley & the house of Lechmere - Published London : Pickering & Co., 1883 - Author Shirley, Evelyn Philip Society of Genealogists

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