Huddington Worcestershire Family History Guide

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Huddington is an Ancient Parish in the county of Worcestershire.

Alternative names: Hadington and Hudinton

Huddington parish includes: Sale Green

Church: St. Michael

Parish registers begin: 1695

Bishops Transcripts begin: 1612

Nonconformists in Huddington: Roman Catholic

Parishes adjacent to Huddington

Oddingley
Himbleton
Grafton Flyford
Crowle
Upton Snodsbury

Historical Descriptions

Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales 1870

Huddington, a parish in Droitwich district, Worcester; on Dean's brook, 3 miles NE of Spetchley r. station, and 4½ SSE of Droitwich. Post town, Droitwich. Acres, 890. Real property, £1, 388; of which £50 are in quarries. Pop., 87. Houses, 18. The manor belongs to the Earl of Shrewsbury. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Worcester. Value, £156. Patron, the Earl of Shrewsbury. The church is in the early English style, and has an open belfry.

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

Topographical Dictionary of Great Britain 1833

Hudington, co. Worcester.
P. T. Droitwich (110) 4½ m. SSE. Pop. 125.
A parish in the middle division of the hundred of Oswaldslow; living, a curacy in the archdeaconry and diocese of Worcester, not in charge; ann. val. P. R. 34l.; church ded. to St. Michael; patron (1829) — Talbot, Esq.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of Great Britain and Ireland by John Gorton. The Irish and Welsh articles by G. N. Wright; Vol. II; London; Chapman and Hall, 186, Strand; 1833.

Worcestershire Delineated C. and J. Greenwood 1822

Huddington – a parish in the hundred of Oswaldslow, middle division, 5 miles S.E. from Droitwich, and 115 from London; containing 17 inhabited houses. This was formerly a chapelry to the parish of Crowle. It is a perpetual curacy; Rev. Robert Vernon, incumbent; patron, Earl of Shrewsbury. Population, 1801, 108 – 1811, 99 – 1821, 125.

Source: Worcestershire Delineated: Being a Topographical Description of Each Parish, Chapelry, Hamlet, &c. In the County; with the distances and bearings from their respective market towns, &c. By C. and J. Greenwood. Printed by T. Bensley, Crane Court, Fleet Street, London, 1822.