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Lindridge, Worcestershire

Historical Description

Lindridge, a village and a parish in Worcestershire. The village stands on the river Teme, 2½ miles E from Newnham Bridge station on the Tenbury and Bewdley branch of the G.W.R., and near the boundary with Salop, 5½ E by N of Tenbury. The parish contains also the hamlets of Eardiston and Broombank, and the ecclesiastical parishes of Knighton-upon-Teme and Pensax. Eardiston has a post office under Tenbury; money order office, Stanford Bridge; telegraph office, Newnham Bridge. The parish comprises 2496 acres; population of the civil parish, 691; of the ecclesiastical, 584. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Hereford; gross value, £615 with residence. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Worcester. The church was rebuilt on the site of the previous one, and on a larger scale, in 1861, and is in the Early Decorated style, of local stone, lined internally with Bath stone. There is a Wesleyan chapel at Frith Common.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Ancient CountyWorcestershire 
Ecclesiastical parishLindridge All Saints 
HundredOswaldslow 
Poor Law unionTenbury 

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.


Civil Registration

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Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Lindridge from the following:


Land and Property

The full transcript of the Worcestershire section of the Return of Owners of Land, 1873.


Maps

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Newspapers and Periodicals

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Visitations Heraldic

The Visitation of Worcestershire 1569 is available on the Heraldry page.

DistrictMalvern Hills
CountyWorcestershire
RegionWest Midlands
CountryEngland
Postal districtWR15
Post TownTenbury Wells

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