Far Forest Worcestershire & Shropshire 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: 1848

Parishes adjacent to Far Forest Worcestershire

• Kinlet
• Rock
• Mamble
• Bayton
• Ribbesford
• Cleobury Mortimer
• Bewdley

Parishes adjacent to Far Forest Shropshire

• Kinlet
• Upper Arley
• Dowles
• Bewdley

Historical Description of Far Forest

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

Far Forest Worcestershire

Birth, Marriage, & Death Records – FamilySearch

England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975

England, Leicestershire Parish Registers, 1533-1991

Far Forest Shropshire

Census Records – FamilySearch

England and Wales Census, 1911

England and Wales Census, 1901

England and Wales Census, 1891

England and Wales Census, 1851

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