Upper Wick is a hamlet in the parish of

Rushwick Rushwick is a village and civil parish in the Malvern Hills District in the county of Worcestershire, England. It is situated to the west of Worcester, Rushwick Parish comprises the four villages and hamlets of Broadmore Green, Crown East, Rush ...

Worcestershire Worcestershire ( , ; written abbreviation: Worcs) is a county in the West Midlands of England. The area that is now Worcestershire was absorbed into the unified Kingdom of England in 927, at which time it was constituted as a county (see His ...

. Ralph Ardern inherited the

manor Manor may refer to: Land ownership *Manorialism or "manor system", the method of land ownership (or "tenure") in parts of medieval Europe, notably England *Lord of the manor, the owner of an agreed area of land (or "manor") under manorialism *Man ...

of Upper Wick between 1382 (the death of his father,

Henry de Ardern Henry de Ardern, or Henry Ardern, was a Member of Parliament for Warwickshire in 1377 and again in 1380, and for Worcestershire from November 1381. In 1373 Henry bought Park Hall, near Castle Bromwich, from Sir John Botetourt.Driver, J. T. ''Wo ...

) and 1408 (the death of his mother).Roskell, J.S.; Clark, L.; Rawcliffe, C. eds. ''The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1386-1421'', 1993
/ref> The farm, as pictured, is owned by the Edmonds family.

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Villages in Worcestershire {{Worcestershire-geo-stub