Bransford, Worcestershire
Historical Description
Bransford, a township and a chapelry in Leigh parish, Worcestershire, on the river Teme, 4 miles SW by W of Worcester. The township has a station of the name of Bransford Road on the G.W.R., and a post office at Bransford Bridge; money order and telegraph office, Worcester. Acreage, 1062; population, 230. Bransford Bridge was built in 1338 by Bishop Walstan. The chapelry is annexed to the rectory of Leigh. The church is a small ancient building, containing a piscina.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Worcestershire | |
Civil parish | Powick | |
Hundred | Pershore | |
Poor Law union | Martley |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Bransford from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Bransford)
Land and Property
The full transcript of the Worcestershire section of the Return of Owners of Land, 1873.
Maps
Online maps of Bransford 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:
Visitations Heraldic
The Visitation of Worcestershire 1569 is available on the Heraldry page.