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‘Rich soil abundantly fertile in corn and pasture’, 3 but with little timber. The manor of
Welford was held by the earls of Middlesex and then the Sackville family, earls and dukes
of Dorset and in the mid-nineteenth century by Lady Amherst. The Griffin family and later
the Lords Harrowby held the manor of Bickmarsh. Enclosure award in 1801.
Weston-on-Avon - a parish of 1560 acres with a very small population where the
Warwickshire Stour joins the Avon, including the small village of Weston and the hamlet
of Milcote; Campden deanery, Gloucester diocese; chiefly in the upper division of
Kiftsgate Hundred, Gloucestershire, but the hamlet of Milcote lay in Barlichway Hundred,
Warwickshire. Stratford Union. Alcester 5, Stratford 4, Bidford 5, Chipping Campden 9.
The manors of Milcote, Weston-on-Avon and Weston Mauduit, like Welford, were held by
the earls of Middlesex and Dorset and from the mid-nineteenth century by the lords
Sackville and Earl Amhurst. No record of parliamentary enclosure.
Zone C, The Central (Wood-pasture) Belt
Abbots Morton - alias Stony Morton, a parish of 1463 acres including Morton Spirt;
Pershore deanery, Worcester diocese; lower division of Blackenhurst Hundred,
Worcestershire; Alcester Union. Alcester 5, Evesham 7, Pershore (post) 9, Worcester 12.
The subsoil is keuper marl and the surface is stiff red clay. Enclosure 1802. The manor
passed through several families including Folkingham, Brooke, Gale, Bulleine, Ellins,
Ballard, Hunt, Cowley and Perks. Enclosure award 1803.
3 Rudder, A New History of Gloucestershire, vol. 1, p. 110.
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