Tardebigge, Worcestershire
Historical Description
Tardebigge, a parish in Worcestershire. The church stands 2 miles S of Blackwell station on the M.R., 3 ESE of Bromsgrove, and 3½ W of Redditch. There is a post office under Bromsgrove; money order office, Bromsgrove; telegraph office, Finstall. The parish includes the township of Bentley Pauncefoot, portions of the townships of Redditch and Webheath, the hamlet of Tutnall and Cobley, and comprises 9449 acres; population of the civil parish, 10,165; of the ecclesiastical, 1460. Eedditch forms a separate ecclesiastical parish, and part of Headless Cross ecclesiastical parish is also in this parish. The manor, with Hewell Grange, belongs to Lord Windsor. Hewell Grange, formerly a seat of the Earls of Plymouth, was rebuilt in 1884-92, and is a handsome mansion in the Elizabethan style, situated in an extensive park. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Worcester; net value, £370 with residence. Patron, Lord Windsor. The church was built in 1777, and is in the Italian style. It contains a mural monument by Chantrey to the sixth Earl of Plymouth. The chancel was rebuilt and enlarged in 1880. There are chapels of ease at Webheath and Lower Bentley.
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 | Tardebigg St. Bartholomew | |
Hundred | Halfshire | |
Poor Law union | Bromsgrove |
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 Tardebigge from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Tardebigg (St. Bartholomew))
Land and Property
The full transcript of the Worcestershire section of the Return of Owners of Land, 1873.
Maps
Online maps of Tardebigge 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.