Hindlip, Worcestershire
Historical Description
Hindlip or Hinlip, a parish in Worcestershire, 1 mile E of Fernhill Heath station on the G.W.R., and 3 miles NE of Worcester. Post town, Worcester; money order and telegraph office, Fernhill Heath. Acreage, 1363; population of the civil parish, 240; of the ecclesiastical, 188. Hindlip Hall, the seat of Lord Hindlip, stands on an eminence in a well-wooded park, with extensive views, and is a square edifice in the Italian style, with two wings. It stands on the site of an ancient mansion built by John Habingdon or Habington, one of whose descendants (in 1606) concealed here six of the chief conspirators of the gunpowder plot, while his wife wrote to her brother, Lord Monteagle, the letter which led to its detection. The manor passed to the Viscounts Southwell, and subsequently to the Allsopp family, now Barons Hindlip. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Worcester; net value, £170 with residence. Patron, Lord Hindlip. The church is Norman, was restored and enlarged in 1864, and again much beautified in 1889 at a cost exceeding £6000, and contains several monuments and tablets.
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 | Hinlip St. James | |
Hundred | Oswaldslow | |
Poor Law union | Droitwich |
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 Hindlip from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Hinlip (St. James))
Land and Property
The full transcript of the Worcestershire section of the Return of Owners of Land, 1873.
Maps
Online maps of Hindlip 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.