Hill Croome is a village, and a civil parish which covers 1000 acres, in the
Malvern Hills District in the county of
Worcestershire, England. Historically a
parish in the lower division of the hundred of
Oswaldslow The Oswaldslow (sometimes Oswaldslaw) was a hundred in the English county of Worcestershire, which was named in a supposed charter of 964 by King Edgar the Peaceful (died 975). It was actually a triple hundred, composed of three smaller hundreds.Mas ...
, according to the 2001 census the parish had a population of 169. Hill Croome was once part of the
Royal forest of
Horewell.
History
A heritable messuage of land and a close in the hamlet of Baughton, which also lies in Hill Croome parish, were held in 1591 by John Turberville and his wife Joan under a lease from Thomas Walshe, Lord the Manor of Hill Croome.
[''The Victoria County History of Worcestershire'', online at - http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/worcs/vol3/pp319-322]
References
Villages in Worcestershire
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