KYRE PARVA

Descriptive Notes:
Also known as Little Kyre

Status:
Hamlet, in Worcestershire, Doddingtree Hundred, and perhaps originally in Kyre Magna Ancient Parish (ecclesiastically called 'Kyre Wyard') but in Stoke Bliss Ancient Parish (otherwise Herefordshire, Broxash Hundred) by 1655. It was a separate Civil Parish in 1866 in Worcestershire. Abolished in 1933 entirely to Stoke Bliss Ancient Parish, which was transferred in 1897 from Herefordshire to Worcestershire [25]

Location:
O.S. Ref: SO642628
5 miles S.E. of Tenbury along the B4214

Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction:
Diocese of Hereford (until 1919) then Diocese of Worcester [5]

Hundred:
Upper Doddingtree [11] [25] [28]

Poor Law Union:
Tenbury [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.
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:
At Worcestershire Library and History Centre [14] :-
Kyre:1841- 81
Kyre Parva: 1841 51 61 81 91 1901
For 1851 see Stoke Bliss

Directories:
KYRE (LITTLE), a chapelry in that part of the parish of STOKE-BLISS which is in the upper division of the hundred of DODDINGTREE, county of WORCESTER, 4½ miles (S.E. by S.) from Tenbury, containing 121 inhabitants. [Topographical Dictionary of England 1831 by Samuel Lewis]

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© Arthur Lewis and contributors 2008
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Last updated on 7th February 2010

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