Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for POWICK

POWICK, a village and a parish in Upton-on-Severn district, Worcestershire. The village stands on a rising-ground near the confluence of the rivers Teme and Severn, 3 miles W by S of Worcester r. station, and 5 from Malvern; commands fine views along the valleys of the rivers; and has a post-office under Worcester. The parish contains also the hamlets of Cleveload and Woodsfield. Acres, 5, 194. Real property, £10, 763. Pop. in 1851, 1,834; in 1861, 2, 222. Houses, 383. The property isalmost equally divided between Earl Beauchamp (who is Baron Powyke) and the Earl of Coventry. The manor belongs to the Earl of Coventry. Beauchamps Court was anciently a seat of the Beauchamps, and has left someremains at a farm-house. The Worcestershire pauperlunatic asylum stands on an eminence 1½ mile S of thechurch; is a red brick structure, with accommodation for 600 patients; and, in 1867, had so many inmates. A Benedictine convent is at Stanbrook; was originallyfounded at Salford in Warwickshire, near the close oflast century; was removed to its present site about 1843; and includes a school for young ladies. An old bridgeon the Teme was the scene of a defeat of Col. Sands, in 1642, by Prince Rupert; and has been superseded by a recent and elegant cast-iron bridge. The living is a vicarage, formerly united with the chapelry of Cleveload, in the diocese of Worcester. Value, £330.* Patron, the Earl of Coventry. The church is Norman and cruciform, withlofty W tower; has undergone great recent improvementsin the windows and in the interior fittings; acquired anaddition to its stained glass windows about the beginning of 1867; and contains some neat monuments and tablets. There are two national schools, and charities £51.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village and a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Powick CP/AP       Upton upon Severn RegD/PLU       Worcestershire AncC
Place: Powick

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