Queenhill, Worcestershire
Historical Description
Queenhill, a township and an ecclesiastical parish in Ripple parish, Worcestershire. The township lies adjacent to the river Severn, 2½ miles SSE of Upton-on-Severn station on the M.R,, and 5 NW of Tewkesbury. Acreage, 688; population, 90. The ecclesiastical parish includes also the hamlet of Holdfast, and was constituted in 1880. Population, 170. Post town, Upton-on-Severn. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Worcester; net value, £335. Patron, the Bishop of Worcester. The church is Norman and Early English, and was restored in 1892. It contains an ancient brass and some monuments.
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 | Ripple | |
Hundred | Pershore | |
Poor Law union | Upton-upon-Severn |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Queenhill from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Queenhill)
Land and Property
The full transcript of the Worcestershire section of the Return of Owners of Land, 1873.
Maps
Online maps of Queenhill 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.