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Salford; Warwick deanery, Worcester diocese; Stratford Division of Barlichway Hundred,
Warwickshire; Alcester Union. Alcester (post) 5, Bidford 2, Stratford 8, Evesham 6. The
manor of Salford Priors (including Cock Bevington and Dunnington) was held by the
Skipwith family until 1790 when it was purchased by the Marquess of Hertford. The
manor was probably enclosed by agreement in the early eighteenth century, except
Dunnington Heath which was enclosed in1783. Names associated with the manor of
Salford Minor or Abbots Salford were Stanford, Sheldon, Berkeley and Eyston. Wood
Bevington was held by St John’s College, Oxford and leased to the Archer family until
1791 when it passed into the family of the Marquess of Hertford, who also took over the
manor of Pophills in 1812, previously held by the Rawlins family.
Weethley - a very small parish of 642 acres, greatly depopulated before the seventeenth
century; Warwick deanery, Worcester diocese; Alcester Division of Barlichway Hundred,
Warwickshire, and Alcester Union. Alcester (post) 3, Evesham 8. On the Ridgeway.
Manor of Weethley held by the Fortescues of Cookhill, then Jennens and Curzon family.
The soil is clay. Maybe included in the lost enclosure award of Kinwarton in1803.
Welford-on-Avon - a parish of 3130 acres lying in a meander of the Avon, including the
large village of Welford and the hamlets of Bickmarsh and Little Dorsington; Campden
deanery, Gloucester diocese. Chiefly in the upper division of Deerhurst Hundred,
Gloucestershire, but Bickmarsh and Little Dorsington were in Barlichway Hundred,
Warwickshire; Stratford Union. Alcester 5, Stratford 4, Bidford 4, Chipping Campden 9.
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