Astley Worcestershire Delineated C. and J. Greenwood 1822
Astley – a parish in the hundred of Doddingtree, lower division, 6 miles S. from Bewdley, and 123 from London; containing 170 inhabited houses; the church is a handsome building, the ancient part of which is of Saxon architecture, and contains several monuments worthy of the attention of the antiquary. Here was formerly an Alien Priory of Benedictines, founded by Ralph De Todeni, in 1160; and at Redstone, a high cliff on the Severn, was a hermitage cut out of the rock, with a chapel and several apartments, which in the days of papal superstition, was held in great veneration; it is now a licensed public house. The living is a rectory; Rev. Denham James John Cookes, incumbent in his own right; instituted 1812. Population, 1801, 697 – 1811, 740 – 1821, 784.
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.
Astley – Research Information
Parish Church: St. Peter
Hundred: Doddingtree, Lower Division
Original registers deposited at: Worcester Record Office
Dates: 1539 – 1987
I.G.I Coverage: 1539 – 1885
Boyd’s Marriage Index: 1539 – 1630
Pallot’s Marriage Index: N/A
Registration District (1851): Martley
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