Sapey, Lower, or Sapey Pilchard, Worcestershire
Historical Description
Sapey, Lower, or Sapey Pilchard, a parish in Worcestershire, on the river Frome, 5 miles NE by N of the Worcester and Bromyard branch of the G.W.R. Post town, Worcester; money order office, Clifton-on-Teme; telegraph office, Stamford Bridge. Acreage, 1696; population, 201. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Hereford; net value, £161 with residence. The old church is now disused, and a new church was erected in 1877 in the Early English style.
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 | Sapey-Pritchard St. Bartholomew | |
Hundred | Doddingtree | |
Poor Law union | Bromyard |
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 Sapey, Lower, or Sapey Pilchard from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Sapey-Pritchard (St. Bartholomew))
Land and Property
The full transcript of the Worcestershire section of the Return of Owners of Land, 1873.
Newspapers and Periodicals
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Visitations Heraldic
The Visitation of Worcestershire 1569 is available on the Heraldry page.