Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for NEWLAND

NEWLAND, a chapelry in Great Malvern parish, Worcester; under the Malvern hills, 2 miles N E of Great Malvern r. station. Post-town, Great Malvern. Acres, 800. Real property, 1, 712. Pop., 191. Houses, 34. The manor belonged formerly to Malvern priory, and belongs now to Earl Beauchamp. Newland Court is the seat of G. H. Goldingham, Esq. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Worcester. Value, £60. Patrons, the Trustees of the late Lord Beauchamp's Charity. The old church was a curious timbered structure, supposed todate from 1415; and was taken down in 1866. A stonecross, 23 feet high, has been erected on the site of itschancel; and forms a conspicuous object in a considerableextent of landscape. The new church is the chapel of the Beauchamp alms-houses or charity. The sum of £60,000 was left, for that charity, by the late Earl Beauchamp.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Great Malvern CP/AP       Newland CP/Ch       Worcestershire AncC
Place: Newland

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