WESTWOOD PARK

Descriptive Notes:

Status:
Originally a chapel in Dodderhill Ancient Parish, extra-parochial in 1178. The chapel had full parochial rights before the dissolution but not sustained thereafter. A separate Civil Parish in 1858. Renamed in 1937 as 'Westwood'. [25]

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

Parish Church:
The date of the building of a church at Westwood is not known. The conventual church or chapel of Westwood was valued at £2 in 1291. ..... The chapel served as a parish church for the inhabitants of Crutch as well as those of Westwood, and had full parochial rights. On the dissolution of Westwood nunnery the chapel was also suppressed, and the inhabitants of Westwood were left without any parish church. After1542 all references to a church at Westwood cease. (From: 'Parishes: Westwood Park', A History of the County of Worcester: volume 3 (1913), pp. 234-37. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=43115. )

Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction:
Extra Parochial [1]

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

Poor Law Union:
Droitwich (1858-1930) [3] [25]

Adjoining Parishes:
Doverdale; Hampton Lovett; Droitwich St Nicholas; Salwarpe; Ombersley [1]

Parish Registers:
For parish registers see HAMPTON LOVETT

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:
1841-61 at Worcestershire Library and History Centre [14]

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