Chaddesley Corbett, Worcestershire
Historical Description
Chaddesley-Corbett, a village and a parish in Worcestershire. The village stands on the Doverdale brook, an affluent of the river Severn, 3½ miles NE of Hartlebury station on the G.W.R., and 4¼ SE of Kidderminster, under which it has a post, money order, and telegraph office. The parish comprises 6079 acres, and includes the hamlets of Harving-ton, Bluntington, Drayton, Cakebole, Hillpool, Woodrow, Muster Green, Yeildingtree, and Outwood; population, 1400. Winterfold, Plerimore House, Harvington Hall, Monks, Siou House, Brockencote Hall, and Drayton House are among the principal residences. There are steam flour and saw mills and a scythe manufactory. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Worcester; value, £392 with residence. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is partly Norman and partly of the Decorated period. The chancel is a good specimen of Decorated work, and has sedilia. There is a fine Norman font. In the north chapel are recumbent figures of a Crusader and an ecclesiastic. There are also 15th century brasses to Thomas Forest, keeper of Dunclent Park, and to his family, and tablets to the Pakington family, and to Sir W. 0. Russell, chief justice of Bengal, and an ancient cross with sun-dial in the churchyard. There is a Roman Catholic chapel at Harvington, and a Primitive Methodist chapel at Bluntington. There are almshouses at Chaddesley-Corbett.
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 | Chaddesley-Corbett St. Cassyon | |
Hundred | Halfshire | |
Poor Law union | Kidderminster |
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 Chaddesley Corbett from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Chaddesley-Corbett (St. Cassyon))
Land and Property
The full transcript of the Worcestershire section of the Return of Owners of Land, 1873.
Maps
Online maps of Chaddesley Corbett 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:
Villages, Hamlets, &c
Harvington (Chaddesley Corbett)Visitations Heraldic
The Visitation of Worcestershire 1569 is available on the Heraldry page.