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Westwood Park

WESTWOOD PARK, an extra-parochial liberty, in the Upper division of the hundred of Halfshire, Droitwich and E. divisions of the county of Worcester, 2¼ miles (W. N. W.) from Droitwich; containing 25 inhabitants, and comprising 730 acres. The road from Ombersley to Droitwich passes on the south. Westwood House, situated on a well-wooded eminence, is a noble edifice of brick, surrounded by tastefully arranged pleasure-grounds, with a fine lake on the west of the park: it is the seat of Sir J. S. Pakington, Bart., M.P. for the borough of Droitwich. A priory dedicated to the Blessed Virgin, for six nuns of the order of Fontevrault, was founded in the reign of Henry II., and at the Dissolution had a revenue of £75. 18. 11.

Transcribed from A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858.

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