WESTWOOD

Status:
Civil Parish [25]
Renaming in 1937 of Westwood Park Civil Parish.[25]

Location:
O.S. Ref: SO875640
1½ miles west of Droitwich

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:
1901 at Worcestershire Library and History Centre [14]

Manorial Records:
Worcestershire Record Office [50]
Westwood: Account rolls 1333-94 with gaps, Court rolls 1342, 1347, 14th cent., 1584
Clethale: Court roll 1434

Directories:
WESTWOOD, an extra-parochial liberty, in the upper division of the hundred of HALFSHIRE, county of WORCESTER, 2¼ miles (W. N. W.) from Droitwich. A priory, dedicated to the Blessed Virgin, for six nuns of the order of Fontevrault, was founded here in the reign of Henry II, and at the dissolution had a revenue of £75. 18. 11. [Topographical Dictionary of England 1831 by Samuel Lewis]

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Last updated on 9th February 2010

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