HINDLIP

Descriptive Notes:
Sometimes Hinlip [44]
The present Hindlip Hall, a Grade II listed Georgian manor house was built around 1820. It has served as the headquarters of West Mercia Constabulary since 1967. Previous occupiers witnessed many turbulent times, the Hall being one of the many of the County's houses caught up in the Gunpowder plot. Some of the conspirators hid in priest-holes in the Hall but to no avail. They were discovered and executed. In 1940, during World War II, top secret plans were drawn up but not implemented, for the evacuation of the War Cabinet to Hindlip Hall. [Daily Telegraph 10 Jan 2006 / TNA]

Status:
Ancient Parish [25]
Originally a chapel in Worcester St Helen Ancient Parish. A separate parish by 1269 [25]

Location:
O.S. Ref: SO880586
3½ miles N.E. of Worcester & 4 miles S.W. of Droitwich
Offerton, anciently called "Alerinton", is a farm 1½ miles E. by S. [57]

Parish Church:
St.James
The church was declared redundant by the Church of England on 30 October 1997.[80] It is no longer used as a parish church but is now the chapel of the West Mercia Constabulary.

Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction:
Archdeaconry & Diocese of Worcester until 1926, Archdeaconry of Dudley & Diocese of Worcester (1926-73), Archdeaconry & Diocese of Worcester (1974 - *) [25]

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

Poor Law Union:
Droitwich [3] [25]

Adjoining Parishes:
Martin Hussingtree; Salwarpe; Oddingley; Tibberton; Warndon; Claines [1]

Parish Registers:

		Coverage	Source
Microform at WLHC	Christenings	1736-1966	[5]
	Marriages	1736-1965	[5]
	Burials	1736-1966	[5]
Transcripts at WLHC	Christenings	1813-1939	[27]
	Marriages	M1814-37	[27]
	Burials	1813-1939	[27]
	General	1612-1740	[27]
Originals at WRO	Marriages	1736-1988	[12]
	Banns	1925-94	[12]

Bishops' Transcripts:
Begin 1612 Worcestershire Library and History Centre [22]

International Genealogical Index (IGI):
[19]

		Coverage
Parish Registers	Marriages	1612-1875
Bishops' Transcripts	Births / Christenings	1612-1700 (58%); 1682-1875 (67%)

Monumental Inscriptions and Associated Documents:
Burial Ground, Fernhill Heath BMSGH microfiche [53]
St.James the Great BMSGH microfiche [53]

At Worcestershire Library and History Centre [51] :
Burial Ground, Fernhill Heath
St.James the Great
Graves in churchyard [20th century]

At Society of Genealogists [59] :-
Burial Ground, Fernhill Heath: Worcestershire monumental inscriptions, vol. 11 [Typescript.] - Published Birmingham : Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry, 1991 - Authors: Farmer, G R & Bushell, L C
(St. James the Great) : MIs: Worcestershire monumental inscriptions, vol. 11 [Typescript.] - Published Birmingham : Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry , 1992 - Authors: Farmer, G R & Bushell, L C

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]

Search Services (Fee paying) - BMSGH and Independent:
Burial 1660-1840 Worcestershire Burial Index
Marriage see Worcestershire Marriage Index

Parish Records on microform at Worcestershire Library and History Centre [13]
Weekly disbursements book 1826-36
Churchwardens accounts book 1828-62
Highway surveyors' account book 1836-66
Poor Law collectors' monthly statement 1865-7
Overseers' receipt & payment books 1836-67
Poor rate assessment books 1819-36
Overseers of the poor account book 1832-5
Poor rate books 1838-65
Inventory of church furniture etc 1884, 1890, 1915
Parish & vestry meeting minutes 1867-1959
Offertory account 1911-33 Parish Church meeting & Church Council minute book 1920-55

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

Directories:
HINLIP, a parish in the lower division of the hundred of OSWALDSLOW, county of WORCESTER, 3½ miles (N. E. by N.) from Worcester, containing 129 inhabitants. The living is a discharged rectory, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Worcester, rated in the king's books at £5. 16. 0½ . James West, Esq. was patron in 1815. The church is dedicated to St. James. The Birmingham and Worcester canal passes along the southern boundary of the parish. Hinlip, or Hendlip Hall, is a perfect and interesting specimen of the style of building in the time of Henry VIII; it is also noted as having been the property and residence of Thomas Habingdon, author of copious manuscript collections for the history of Worcestershire. [Topographical Dictionary of England 1831 by Samuel Lewis]

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