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Cotheridge, Worcestershire

Historical Description

Cotheridge, a parish in Worcestershire, on the river Teme, 4 miles W of Worcester. It has a post office under Worcester; money order and telegraph office, Worcester. Acreage, 2144; population of the civil parish, 196; of the ecclesiastical, 201. Cotheridge Court, the seat of the Berkeley family, who are lords of the manor, stands amid extensive grounds, and is approached by a straight avenue of lofty trees half a mile long. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Worcester; value, £40. The church is chiefly Perpendicular, and has an arched partition between nave and chancel, one of the arches of which is Norman. The chancel is paved with ancient tiles, some of which bear heraldic devices and other inscriptions.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Ancient CountyWorcestershire 
Ecclesiastical parishCotheridge St. Leonard 
HundredDoddingtree 
Poor Law unionMartley 

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.


Civil Registration

For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.


Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Cotheridge from the following:


Land and Property

The full transcript of the Worcestershire section of the Return of Owners of Land, 1873.


Maps

Online maps of Cotheridge are available from a number of sites:


Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Worcestershire papers online:


Villages, Hamlets, &c

Hewson
Otherton

Visitations Heraldic

The Visitation of Worcestershire 1569 is available on the Heraldry page.

DistrictMalvern Hills
CountyWorcestershire
RegionWest Midlands
CountryEngland
Postal districtWR6
Post TownWorcester

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