Bretforton, Worcestershire
Historical Description
Bretforton, a village and a parish in Worcestershire, 1½ mile SE of Littleton and Badsey station on the G.W.R., 1 mile SW of Honeybourne Junction, and 3½ miles E of Evesham, under which there is a post and telegraph office; money order office, Bengeworth. Acreage of parish, 1706; population, 529. Bretforton Manor is the chief residence, and is a part of the ancient manor. At Bretforton Hall there is a remarkably large walnut tree in the garden. An old grange, the ancient manor house of the abbots of Evesham, with an ancient barn and fish pond, exists in this parish. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Worcester; net value, £132 with residence. The church is ancient, ranging from Late Norman to Late Perpendicular; it was restored in 1823, and again in 1847. The carving of the Norman capitals is good; there is an embattled tower of the 15th century. 238
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Worcestershire | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Bretforton St. Leonard | |
Hundred | Blackenhurst | |
Poor Law union | Evesham |
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 Bretforton from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Bretforton (St. Leonard))
Land and Property
The full transcript of the Worcestershire section of the Return of Owners of Land, 1873.
Maps
Online maps of Bretforton 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.