Newland, Worcestershire Family History Guide

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Newland is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Worcestershire, created in 1728 from a chapelry in Great Malvern Ancient Parish.

Parish registers begin: 1562

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Newland Parish Records

Search online registers of baptisms, marriages, banns and burials including digitised images of original records and registers and indexed transcriptions.

Newland, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812

Newland, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1812-1922

Newland, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1947

Newland, Church of England Deaths and Burials, 1813-1997

Historical Directories

Newland Billings Directory of Worcestershire 1855

Newland is a chapelry to Great Malvern, from which it is distant about 2 miles. It contained in 1851 a population of 140 inhabitants.

The Chapel is a very small edifice, standing near the road leading to Worcester. There is no stated minister. James Gurney, Clerk. Service – 11 a.m. and 3 p.m., alternately.

DIRECTORY

Creswell James, farmer
Lakin Henry, steward to Earl Beauchamp, Newland Court
Pullen William, butcher and farmer; house Powick
Williams Jemima, blacksmith and Sub-Postmistress
Williams John, victualler, Swan
Winnall Mr., farmer, Monkfields
Post Office, near the Swan – Jemima Williams, Sub-Postmistress. Delivery, 7 30 a.m.; despatch, 6 30p.m.

Source: Billings Directory of Worcestershire 1855

Newland Lewis Worcestershire Directory 1820

Bennett Thomas, farmer
Cresswell James, farmer
Cresswell Thos., solicitor
Hill John, gent.
Mordon M., vict.
Reynolds Thos., farmer
Stephens Wm., farmer
Thomas Rd., farmer
Winnall Thomas, farmer

Source: S Lewis Worcestershire General and Commercial Directory for 1820.

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

NEWLAND, a chapelry in Great Malvern parish, Worcester; under the Malvern hills, 2 miles N E of Great Malvern r. station. Post-town, Great Malvern. Acres, 800. Real property, 1,712. Pop., 191. Houses, 34. The manor belonged formerly to Malvern priory, and belongs now to Earl Beauchamp. Newland Court is the seat of G. H. Goldingham, Esq.

The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Worcester. Value, £60. Patrons, the Trustees of the late Lord Beauchamp’s Charity. The old church was a curious timbered structure, supposed to date from 1415; and was taken down in 1866. A stone cross, 23 feet high, has been erected on the site of its chancel; and forms a conspicuous object in a considerable extent of landscape. The new church is the chapel of the Beauchamp alms-houses or charity. The sum of £60,000 was left, for that charity, by the late Earl Beauchamp.

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

Newland – a hamlet and chapelry in the parish of Great Malvern, hundred of Pershore, lower division, 6 miles S.W. from Worcester, and 118 from London; containing 25 inhabited houses. Population, 1801, 132 – 1811, 133 – 1821, 125.

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.

Administration

  • County: Worcestershire
  • Civil Registration District: Upton upon Severn
  • Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Worcester (Episcopal Consistory)
  • Diocese: Worcester
  • Rural Deanery: Powyke
  • Poor Law Union: Upton upon Severn
  • Hundred: Pershore
  • Province: Canterbury