Church Honeybourne, Worcestershire
Historical Description
Church-Honeybourne or Steeple-Honeybourne, a village and a parish in Worcestershire, on Icknield Street, at the verge of the county, 5 miles E of Evesham, with a station under the name of Honeybourne on the G.W.R., and a post office of the same name under Broadway; money order office, Broadway; telegraph office, the railway station. Acreage, 1339; population, 95. The living is a vicarage, with the vicarage of Cow Honeybourne annexed, in the diocese of Worcester; net value, £200 with residence. The church is ancient.
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 | Church Honeybourne St. Egwin | |
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 Church Honeybourne from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Honeybourne, Church (St. Egwin))
Land and Property
The full transcript of the Worcestershire section of the Return of Owners of Land, 1873.
Maps
Online maps of Church Honeybourne 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.