Croome D'Abitot is a village and

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government. Civil parishes can trace their origin to the ancient system of parishes, w ...

, which shares a joint parish council with

Severn Stoke Severn Stoke is an English village and civil parish in the Malvern Hills District, in the south of the county of Worcestershire, alongside the A38 trunk road. It had a population of 611 in 2011. History In 1996 a hoard of 18 silver Saxon penni ...

, in the

Malvern Hills District Malvern Hills is a Districts of England, local government district in Worcestershire, England. Its council is based in Malvern, Worcestershire, Malvern, the district's largest town. The district also includes the towns of Tenbury Wells and Upto ...

in the county of

Worcestershire Worcestershire ( , ; written abbreviation: Worcs) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in the West Midlands (region), West Midlands of England. It is bordered by Shropshire, Staffordshire, and the West Midlands (county), West ...

, England. The parish church of St Mary Magdalene is situated in the grounds of

Croome Court Croome Court is a mid-18th-century Neo-Palladian mansion surrounded by extensive landscaped parkland at Croome D'Abitot, near Upton-upon-Severn in south Worcestershire, England. The mansion and park were designed by Lancelot "Capability" Brown ...

History

Known today as Croome / Croome d'Abitot / Earl's Croome / Earls Croome, it is listed within the

hundred 100 or one hundred (Roman numerals, Roman numeral: C) is the natural number following 99 (number), 99 and preceding 101 (number), 101. In mathematics 100 is the square of 10 (number), 10 (in scientific notation it is written as 102). The standar ...

Oswaldslow The Oswaldslow (sometimes Oswaldslaw) was a Hundred (county subdivision), hundred in the English county of Worcestershire, which was named in a supposed charter of 964 by King Edgar the Peaceful. It was actually a triple hundred, composed of three s ...

in the historic county of

as being land owned by the bishop of Worcester (St. Mary) in both 1066 and 1086.Open Domesday Online: Croome (d'Abitot) and (Earl's) Croome
accessed July 2018. The first Norman sheriff of Worcester

Urse d'Abetot Urse d'Abetot (–1108) was a Norman who followed King William I to England, and became Sheriff of Worcestershire and a royal official under him and Kings William II and Henry I. He was a native of Normandy and moved to England shortly after t ...

, controlled many lands of the church. Through his daughter Emmeline, Urse is an ancestor of the Beauchamp family, who eventually became Earls of Warwick. Croome D'Abitot was once part of the

Royal forest A royal forest, occasionally known as a kingswood (), is an area of land with different definitions in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. The term ''forest'' in the ordinary modern understanding refers to an area of wooded land; however, the ...

of Horewell. The woodlands were mostly removed around the time of the Civil War. Croome D'Abitot was the birthplace of the Anglican Bible commentator

John Trapp John Trapp may refer to: * John Trapp (writer) (1601–1669), English writer and theologian * John Q. Trapp (born 1945), American retired professional basketball player See also

* John Thrupp (1817–1870), English lawyer and historical writ ...

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