Salwarpe is a small village and
civil parish
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in the
Wychavon
Wychavon is a local government district in Worcestershire, England, with a population size of 132,500 according to the 2021 census. Its council is based in the town of Pershore, and the other towns in the district are Droitwich Spa and Evesh ...
district of
Worcestershire
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, England, less than two miles south west of
Droitwich, but in open country. The name is also spelled Salwarp, and in the time of
John Leland was recorded as Salop. Since 2003, Salwarpe has shared a
parish council with
Hindlip and
Martin Hussingtree
Martin Hussingtree is a small village situated between Droitwich Spa and Worcester in the county of Worcestershire
Worcestershire ( , ; written abbreviation: Worcs) is a county in the West Midlands of England. The area that is now Worce ...
.
History
A
Saxon charter of the year 817 records that
Coenwulf, King of
Mercia
la, Merciorum regnum
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, common_name=Mercia
, status=Kingdom
, status_text=Independent kingdom (527–879)Client state of Wessex ()
, life_span=527–918
, era= Heptarchy
, event_start=
, date_start=
, ...
, granted the manor of Salwarpe to
Denebeorht,
Bishop of Worcester
A bishop is an ordained clergy member who is entrusted with a position of Episcopal polity, authority and oversight in a religious institution.
In Christianity, bishops are normally responsible for the governance of dioceses. The role or offic ...
, and his
Priory
A priory is a monastery of men or women under religious vows that is headed by a prior or prioress. Priories may be houses of mendicant friars or nuns (such as the Dominicans, Augustinians, Franciscans, and Carmelites), or monasteries of ...
.
[ By the 11th century, the grant had been alienated, and a nobleman named Godwine had possession of the principal manor of Salwarpe, while his brother Leofric, Earl of Mercia, was a lesser landowner there. As Godwine was dying about 1052, Saint Wulfstan, who was Dean of Worcester, persuaded him to give his manor of Salwarpe back to Worcester Priory, but Godwine's son Ethelwine (named in the ]Domesday Book
Domesday Book () – the Middle English spelling of "Doomsday Book" – is a manuscript record of the "Great Survey" of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 by order of King William I, known as William the Conqueror. The manusc ...
as being in possession in the time of King Edward King Edward may refer to:
Monarchs of England and the United Kingdom
* Edward the Elder (–924)
* Edward the Martyr (–978)
* Edward the Confessor (–1066)
* Edward I of England (1239–1307)
* Edward II of England (1284–1327)
* Edward III o ...
) repudiated his father's Will and kept it, denying the bequest to the Priory.[ Salwarpe was in the ancient ]hundred
100 or one hundred (Roman numeral: C) is the natural number following 99 and preceding 101.
In medieval contexts, it may be described as the short hundred or five score in order to differentiate the English and Germanic use of "hundred" to des ...
of Clent.
By 1086, the Norman Urse d'Abetot had acquired an estate in Worcestershire which became the Barony of Salwarpe, which included Salwarpe Court, a substantial country house
An English country house is a large house or mansion in the English countryside. Such houses were often owned by individuals who also owned a Townhouse (Great Britain), town house. This allowed them to spend time in the country and in the cit ...
, later a seat of the Earls of Warwick
Earl of Warwick is one of the most prestigious titles in the peerages of the United Kingdom. The title has been created four times in English history, and the name refers to Warwick Castle and the town of Warwick.
Overview
The first creatio ...
. In 1382, this house was the birthplace of Richard de Beauchamp, 13th Earl of Warwick.[''A History of the County of Worcester'' (volume 3, 1913)]
pp. 205-210 online
/ref>[ It was rebuilt for a new owner, Sir John Talbot, in the time of ]Queen Elizabeth I
Elizabeth I (7 September 153324 March 1603) was Queen of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death in 1603. Elizabeth was the last of the five House of Tudor monarchs and is sometimes referred to as the "Virgin Queen".
Eli ...
.[ In this era, the Domesday hundreds of Clent and Cresslow were combined to form Halfshire hundred.
The ancient parish of Salwarpe contains several hamlets. The early nineteenth-century enclosure map shows Boycott, Chauson, Copcott, High Park, Hill End, Ladywood, Middleton, Newland, and Oakley, and most of these names were also recorded in the 17th century.][
The ]Church of England
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parish church
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, dedicated to St Michael and All Angels, is unusually large for a village now so small, but it reflects greater importance in past centuries. Parts of the church are Norman.
In 1868, the ''National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland'' said
Geography
The River Salwarpe rises near Bromsgrove and passes Stoke Prior, Upton Warren, Wychbold, Salwarpe, and Droitwich, after which it meets the River Severn
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at Hawford. The 18th century Droitwich Canal
The Droitwich Canal is a synthesis of two canals in Worcestershire, England; the Droitwich Barge Canal and the Droitwich Junction Canal. The Barge Canal is a broad canal which opened in 1771 linking Droitwich Spa to the River Severn at Hawford ...
also passes near the village.
The BBC's Droitwich Transmitting Station, established in 1934, is a few miles north of the village.
Notable People
*Jennifer Harris, (1989-present), Member of the Emmanuel College team which won University Challenge 2010
*Nathaniel Torporley
Nathaniel Torporley (1564–1632) was an English clergyman, mathematician, and astrologer.
Life
He was born in Shropshire, and was admitted to Shrewsbury free grammar school as an 'oppidan' in 1571. He matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford, ...
(1564–1632), Rector of Salwarpe (1608–1622).[A. D. Wraight, ''In search of Christopher Marlowe: a pictorial biography'' (1965), p. 150]
* Richard Beauchamp, 13th Earl of Warwick, born at Salwarpe Court (1382).[ Richard Gough, ''Description of the Beauchamp chapel, adjoining to the church of St. Mary, at Warwick. And the monuments of the earls of Warwick, in the said church and elsewhere'' (Warwick Town, St Mary, 1803)]
p. 17
/ref>
* Sir John Talbot (1630-1714), soldier and politician, had his country seat at Salwarpe Court.
Notes
External links
St Michael's Church, Salwarpe
at shmhchurches.com
Salwarpe
at genuki.org.uk
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Civil parishes in Worcestershire