Pendock, Worcestershire

Historical Description

Pendock, a village and a parish in Worcestershire, adjacent to Gloucestershire, 6 miles WNW of Tewkesbury. Post town, Tewkesbury. Acreage, 1145; population, 221. The manor belonged to Malvern Abbey. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Worcester; net value, £236 with residence. The church is Early Norman, with a 14th-century tower; it contains a Saxon font and piscina. There is a Wesleyan chapel.

Administration

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

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 Pendock from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Pendock)

Land and Property

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

Maps

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

• Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• Google Streetview.
• National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
• OpenStreetMap.
• old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
• Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)

Newspapers and Periodicals

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

• Worcester Journal
• Worcestershire Chronicle
• Worcester Herald

Visitations Heraldic

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