Westwood Park, Worcestershire Family History Guide
Status: Extra-parochial
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Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
WESTWOOD PARK, an extra-parochial tract in Droitwich district, Worcester; 3 miles WNW of Droitwich.
Acres, 1,380. Pop., 22. Houses, 4.
A Benedictine nunnery was founded here, in the time of Richard II.; became a cell to Fontevrault abbey in France; and was given, at the dissolution, to the Packingtons. W. P. House was built in 1590, and is now the seat of the Right Hon. Sir J. S. Packington, Bart.
The “Sir Roger de Coverley” of Addison was Sir Herbert Packington; and the writer of the “Whole Duty of Man,” jointly with Bishop Fell, was a Lady Packington.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Parish Registers
Marriage Licences and Allegations
London Marriage Licences and Allegations 1521 to 1869
The following have been extracted from London Marriage Licences 1521 to 1869.
Abbreviations. — B. Bishop of London’s Office; D. Dean and Chapter of Westminster; F. Faculty Office of Archbishop of Canterbury; V. Registry of the Vicar-General of Canterbury.
Hoskyns, John of Middle Temple, esq., bachelor, about 34, and Mrs. Margaret Pakington, of Westwood, co. Worcester, spinster, about 22, consent of father. Sir John Pakington, bart. — at parish church of Hampton, or Westwood chapel. 26 Nov. 1669. V.
Pakington, Sir John, bart., of Westwood, co. Worcester, widower, 28, and Hester Perrott, of Haraulestone, co. Pembroke, spinster, 28 and upwards — at All Saints, in the city of Oxford, or …. 26 Aug. 1700. F
Source: London Marriage Licences 1521 to 1869; Edited by Joseph Foster; London 1887
Parish Records
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Directories
Westwood Billings Directory 1855
Westwood is situated about a mile and a quarter N.W. from Droitwich, adjoining the parish of Hampton Lovett, and is an extra-parochial manor, containing, in 1851, a population of 10 inhabitants.
Westwood is the seat of the ancient family of Pakington, and was granted, with its revenues, to Sir John Pakington by Henry VIII. The mansion was burnt down during the civil wars, and the central portion of the present building was formerly the lodge. The family then added four wings to it, and made it their residence. There was a priory here, for six nuns, in the time of Henry II.
The family of Pakington can be traced to the time of Henry II, and resided for some centuries in the county of Warwick. W. de Pakington was secretary to the Black Prince. The family first came into this county by the marriage of John Pakington with a daughter of the ancient family of Washbourne, of Stanford, in the time of Henry VI.
DIRECTORY
Pakington Sir John S., Bart., M.P. for Droitwich
Source: Billings Directory of Worcestershire 1855
Administration
- County: Worcestershire
- Civil Registration District: Droitwich
- Probate Court: Search the courts of the surrounding parishes
- Diocese: Not Applicable
- Rural Deanery: Not Applicable
- Poor Law Union: Droitwich
- Hundred: Halfshire
- Province: Canterbury