Acton Beauchamp Worcestershire Delineated C. and J. Greenwood 1822


Acton Beauchamp – a parish in the hundred of Doddingtree, upper division, 11 miles W.S.W. from Worcester, and 124 from London, containing 49 inhabited houses, on the borders of Herefordshire. A new church has lately been built at the expense of the inhabitants. It is a rectory; Rev. H. Berry, incumbent; instituted 1820; patron, H. Wrighte, Esq. Population, 1801, 214 – 1811, 240 – 1821, 258.

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.

Acton Beauchamp – Research Information


Parish Church: St. Giles
Hundred: Doddingtree, Upper Division
Original registers deposited at: Herefordshire Record Office
Dates: 1577 – 1994
I.G.I Coverage: 1571 – 1885
Boyd’s Marriage Index: N/A
Pallot’s Marriage Index: N/A
Registration District (1851): Bromyard

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