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separate parish register from the late eighteenth century. Parts of Tardebigge parish were
also assigned to the new Headless Cross parish in 1850. Alcester 8, Bromsgrove (post) 3,
Kings Norton 8, Birmingham 13, Henley 12. The manor of Tardebigge was held by the
Windsor, Clive and Archer family, earls of Plymouth. Bentley Pauncefoot was held by the
Cookes family until the nineteenth century when it was purchased by the Hemming family.
Extensive wharves on the Birmingham to Worcester Canal at Tardebigge hamlet.
Redditch grew from a hamlet in the seventeenth century to become a manufacturing and
market town in the nineteenth century, approximately 3 miles from Tardebigge church and
hamlet. Enclosure award for Redditch Common and Webheath 1771 and Bentley
Pauncefoot 1772.
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