Naunton Beauchamp, Worcestershire Family History
Naunton Beauchamp is an Ancient Parish in the county of Worcestershire.
Parish church: St. Bartholomew
Parish registers begin: 1559
Nonconformists include: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and Society of Friends/Quaker.
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Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales Circa 1870
Naunton-Beauchamp, a parish in Pershore Registration District, Worcester; on a branch of the river Avon, 3 miles N by E of Pershore r. station. Post-town, Pershore. Acres, 1,025. Real property, £1,327. Pop., 157. Houses, 30. The property is divided among a few.
The living is a rectory in the diocese of Worcester. Value, £96. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church was built after the Conquest, by Urso D’Abtot, Earl of Worcester, whose daughter married the first Beauchamp; and it is a brick structure, with a stone tower, all in good repair.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Worcestershire Delineated C. and J. Greenwood 1822
Naunton-Beauchamp – a parish in the hundred of Pershore, upper division, 3 miles N. from Pershore, and 108 from London; containing 25 inhabited houses. It is a rectory; Rev. Cornelius Copner, incumbent; instituted 1815; patron, the King. Population, 1801, 115 – 1811, 123 – 1821, 149.
Source: Worcestershire Delineated: Being a Topographical Description of Each Parish, Chapelry, Hamlet, &c. In the County; with the distances and bearings from their respective market towns, &c. By C. and J. Greenwood. Printed by T. Bensley, Crane Court, Fleet Street, London, 1822.
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Bentley’s Directory of Naunton Beauchamp 1840 – Archive.org
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Naunton Beauchamp Billings Directory of Worcestershire 1855
Naunton Beauchamp is a parish situated about 7 miles E. of Worcester, and contained in 1851 a population of 144 inhabitants.
The principal event in the history of this parish is the removal, in the thirteenth century, of the Littleton family, from South Littleton, near Evesham, to Naunton Court, where some of the family resided till the last century, when the property was sold to the present proprietor. Being almost the first family in the kingdom, both on account of its antiquity and extraordinary talent, we think this place may justly take a pride in claiming them as its natives. At the present time nothing remains but Ghost’s Walk – the site of a Roman Catholic Chapel, moated very curiously – and a dilapidated part of a mansion, now used as a farm-house, the principal feature of which is a magnificent oak dining table, with carved legs, of great antiquity.
The Church, dedicated to St. Bartholomew, is a small but ancient edifice, consisting of nave, chancel, and western tower, with diagonal buttresses; the body of the church was restored upwards of eighty years since, the tower being the remaining portion of the original edifice. The church contains many monumental memorials to the Littleton family, but none of an earlier date than 1624. There is also a memorial to the Rev. John hunt, dated 1747; the family of this gentleman have been residents in this parish for upwards of two centuries. The living is a Rectory, in the patronage of the Lord Chancellor. Rev. William Dannett, B.A., Rector; Mr. William Perks, Clerk. Service – 11 a.m. and 3 p.m., alternately.
There is no Parochial or National School in this parish.
DIRECTORY
Dannett Rev. William, B.A., Rectory, Rectory
Bakewell James, farmer
Hunt George, farmer, New House
Morris William, beer retailer, farmer, and shopkeeper
Perks William, farmer and Parish Clerk
Sumner John, farmer, Naunton Court
Slade Thomas, shoe maker
Source: Billings Directory of Worcestershire 1855
Naunton Beauchamp Lewis Worcestershire Directory 1820
Naunton Beauchamp, 3 miles from Pershore, containing 21 houses, and 115 inhabitants.
Arnold Wm., shoemaker
Copner Rev. Cornelius
Huband Thomas, farmer
Hunt George, farmer
Moore Mrs., farmer
Ward David, farmer
Source: S Lewis Worcestershire General and Commercial Directory for 1820.
Administration
- County: Worcestershire
- Civil Registration District: Pershore
- Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Worcester (Episcopal Consistory)
- Diocese: Worcester
- Rural Deanery: Pershore
- Poor Law Union: Pershore
- Hundred: Pershore
- Province: Canterbury