Orleton, Worcestershire
Historical Description
Orleton, a chapelry in Eastham parish, Worcestershire, on the river Teme, 4½ miles SE of Newnham Bridge station on the Bewdley and Tenbury branch of the G.W.R., and 6½ E by S of Tenbury. Post town, Stanford Bridge; telegraph office, Newnham Bridge. Acreage, 546; population, 118. The living is a chapelry, annexed to the rectory of Eastham, in the diocese of Hereford.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Worcestershire | |
Civil parish | Eastham | |
Hundred | Doddingtree | |
Poor Law union | Tenbury |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Orleton from the following:
Land and Property
The full transcript of the Worcestershire section of the Return of Owners of Land, 1873.
Maps
Online maps of Orleton 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.