Far Forest Shropshire & Worcestershire Family History Guide

Far Forest is an Ecclesiastical Parish partly in Shropshire and partly in Worcestershire; Created in 1845 from Ribbesford Ancient Parish, Rock Ancient Parish (both in Worcestershire) and Stottesdon Ancient Parish (Shropshire).

Church: Holy Trinity

Parish registers begin:

• Parish registers: 1848
• Bishop’s Transcripts: None

Adjacent Parishes

• Kinlet
• Rock
• Mamble
• Bayton
• Ribbesford
• Cleobury Mortimer
• Bewdley
• Dowles
• Arley, Staffordshire

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

Far-Forest, a chapelry in Ribbesford and Rock parishes, Worcester, and Stottesden parish, Salop; near the Bewdley and Tenbury railway, 4 miles W of Bewdley. Post-town, Bayton, under Bewdley. Pop., 655. Houses, 152. The property is subdivided. The chapelry was constituted in 1845. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Hereford. Value, £101. Patrons, the Rectors of Ribbesford and Rock. The church is good.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Worcestershire, Far-Forest – Cemeteries ( 1 )
Monumental inscriptions, Holy Trinity Church, Far Forest, nr. Bewdley, Worchestershire
Author: Birmingham and Midland Society for Genealogy and Heraldry

England, Worcestershire, Far-Forest – Church records ( 2 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Ribbesford, 1660-1841
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Ribbesford (Worcestershire)

Parish registers of Far-Forest, 1848-1951
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Far-Forest (Worcestershire)

Administration

• County: Worcestershire
• Civil Registration District: Cleobury Mortimer; Kidderminster
• Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Hereford (Episcopal Consistory)
• Diocese: Hereford
• Rural Deanery: Burford
• Poor Law Union: Cleobury Mortimer, Kidderminster
• Hundred: Doddingtree
• Province: Canterbury