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Savage family and Walter Savage Landor and his descendants.
No parliamentary
enclosure.
Studley - a large parish of 4322 acres on the River Arrow including Skilts, Washford,
Littlewood Green and Mappleborough Green; Warwick deanery, Worcester diocese;
Alcester Division of Barlichway Hundred, Warks., and Alcester Union. Alcester (post) 4,
Redditch 3, Henley 5, Birmingham 13. Important roads through the parish include those
from Alcester to Birmingham and Bromsgrove, and one from Henley to Bromsgrove.
Manor of Studley held by the Knottesford family until 1766 and then by the Knight family
of Barrels near Henley-in-Arden. A separate manor of Studley St Johns was held by
various families from1660 to 1860 including Huband, Chambers and Holyoake. Skilts in
the north of the parish was held by the Sheldon and then the Willan families. The lords of
the manor of Studley Hay (which included Mappleborough Green) were the Gage and
Shelley families. The manorial divisions in Studley are complex and other manors included
Gattacks, Gorcott and Studley Castle. Enclosure award 1824.
Tardebigge - a very extensive parish of 9555 acres on the Arrow, including Bentley
Pauncefoot (Upper and Lower), Hewell, Sheltwood, Webheath, Bordesley, Redditch and
Tutnall and Cobley and part of Blackwell, Crabbs Cross and Headless Cross; Droitwich
deanery, Worcester diocese; upper division of Halfshire Hundred, Worcestershire,
although Tutnall and Cobley was in the Alcester division of Barlichway Hundred,
Warwickshire until 1832. Part Alcester and part Bromsgrove Union.
In 1855 a new
ecclesiastical parish of Redditch was formed, although the chapelry of Redditch had kept a
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