Hill Croome | |
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![]() Hill Croome Church | |
Location within Worcestershire | |
Population | 169 |
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District | |
Shire county | |
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Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | Worcester |
Postcode district | WR8 |
Police | West Mercia |
Fire | Hereford and Worcester |
Ambulance | West Midlands |
UK Parliament | |
Hill Croome is a village, and a civil parish which covers 1000 acres, in the Malvern Hills District in the county of Worcestershire, England. [1] Historically a parish in the lower division of the hundred of Oswaldslow, [2] according to the 2001 census the parish had a population of 169. [3] Hill Croome was once part of the Royal forest of Horewell. [4]
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. [5]
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