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of the
Birmingham & Midland Society
for Genealogy and Heraldry

HILLHAMPTON

Descriptive Notes:
Witley Great St Michael Sometimes Hampton (Hill) [44]

Status:
Hamlet in Martley Ancient Parish. A separate Civil Parish in 1866 [25]

Hillhampton is a hamlet of Martley parish separated from it by the parish of Great Witley [Kelly's Directory 1884] [57]

Hillampton is a hamlet …… now a part of Great Witley parish [Kelly's Directory 1892] [38]

The township of Hillhampton, formerly in Martley, is now in the parish of Great Witley.[From: 'Parishes: Martley withHillhampton', A History of the County of Worcester: volume 4 (1924), pp. 289-297. URL: www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=42899
Published 1924. Date accessed: 31 January 2008.] [15]

Location:
O.S. Ref: SO773654
1 mile E.S.E. of Great Witley along the A443

Poor Law Union:
Martley [57]

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.
The findmypast.co.uk website offers access to the 1911 census. This is a Subscription or PayAsYouGo site. 
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]

Directories:
HAMPTON (HILL), a hamlet in the parish of MARTLEY, upper division of the hundred of DODDINGTREE, county of WORCESTER, containing 138 inhabitants. [Topographical Dictionary of England 1831 by Samuel Lewis]

Arthur Lewis and contributors 2008
Comments, additions, corrections etc to Arthur Lewis
Last updated on 7th February 2010