Descriptive gazetteer entries

We have no further entries in our collection of 19th century descriptive gazetteers about Martley, but we do have this information about localities within the associated parish or parishes. You may be able to find further references to Martley in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.

Place	Type of entry	Source
HAMPTON (HILL)	a hamlet	Imperial
Hillhampton	township	Bartholomew
Hill Top	hamlet	Bartholomew

Descriptive gazetteer entries

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Martley like this:

MARTLEY, a village, a parish, a sub-district, and a district in Worcestershire. The village stands on a pretty spot, near the river Teme, 2 miles from the boundary with Herefordshire, and 7¼ NW by W of Worcester r. station; is a polling-place; and has a post office under Worcester. The parish contains also the hamlet of Hillhampton, and comprises 5,124 acres. Real property, £7,603. Pop., 1,298. Houses, 271. The property is divided among a few. The manor belongs to the Earl of Dudley. Horsham House is ...

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the seat of N. J. Smith, Esq.; the Noak, of J. Nash, Esq.; and Hill Top, of R. A. Moule, Esq. Hops and fruit are extensively grown. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Worcester. Value, £1,100. * Patron, the Rev. H. J. Hastings. The church is Norman; consists of nave and chancel, with a tower; and was recently repaired. There are two endowed national schools, with £59 and £15 ayear, and charities £15.—The sub-district excludes Hillhampton hamlet, but includes the parishes of Stockton, Stanford-on-Teme, Shelsley-Walsh, Shelsley-Beauchamp, and Clifton-upon-Teme, and the chapelry of Pensax. Acres, 13,335. Pop., 3,128. Houses, 652.—The district comprehends also the sub-district of Great Witley, containing the parishes of Great Witley, Abberley, Areley-Kings, Astley, and Shrawley, the chapelry of Little Witley, and the hamlet of Hillhampton; the sub-district of Holt, containing the Holt proper part of Holt parish, the parishes of Grimley, Hallow, Cotheridge, Broad was, and Wichenford, and the extra-parochial tract of Kenswick; and the sub-district of Leigh, containing the parishes of Leigh, Knightwick, Suckley, and Doddenham. Acres, 53,718. Poor rates in 1863, £7,840. Pop. in 1 851,13,811; in 1861,15,098. Houses, 3,166. Marriages in 1863,91; births, 470,-of which 39 were illegitimate; deaths, 243,-of which 73 were at ages under 5 years, and 17 at ages above 85. Marriages in the ten years 1851-60,826; births, 4,049; deaths, 2,581. The places of worship, in 1851, were 29 of the Church of England, with 6,399 sittings; 2 of Independents, with 250 s.; 3 of Wesleyan Methodists, with 155 s.; 1 of the Wesleyan Association, with 30 s.; and 3 of Lady Huntingdon's Connexion, with 280 s. The schools were 19 public day schools, with 1,183 scholars; 8 private day schools, with 178 s.; and 21 Sunday schools, with 1,284 s. The workhouse is at Martley; and, at the census of 1861, had 117 inmates.

This is the only descriptive gazetter entry we have found, but you may be able to find further references to Martley by doing a full-text search here.

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Travel writing

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Place	Mentioned in Travel Writing	Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer
Wichenford	0	2
Clifton upon Teme	0	3
Doddenham	0	2
Little Witley	0	2
Kenswick	0	2
Shelsley Walsh	0	2
Shelsley Beauchamp	0	2
Great Witley	0	3
Broadwas	1	2
Knightsford Bridge	0	2
Shelsley Kings	0	1
Whitbourne	1	2
Lulsley	0	2
Tedstone Delamere	0	2
Holt	2	2
Hillhampton	0	1
Redmarley	0	2
Grimley	0	2
Lower Sapey	0	2
Knightwick	0	2