Elmley Lovett in Worcestershire, England is a civil parish whose residents' homes are quite loosely clustered east of its Hartlebury Trading Estate, as well as in minor neighbourhood Cutnall Green to the near south-east. The latter is a loosely linear settlement that includes a pub-restaurant and farm shop on the Elmley Lovett side of the boundaries; it continues passing its near-square public green into the parish of Elmbridge, a similarly sized parish over to the east.[2][3]

Elmley Lovett
St Michael's church is a grand and medievalesque reconstruction of a much earlier church, such as its centuries-old spire
Steps and trees at Elmley Lovett, sketched in 1850
Elmley Lovett Location within Worcestershire
Area	7.82 km2 (3.02 sq mi)
Population	314 (2011 census)[1]
• Density	40/km2 (100/sq mi)
Civil parish	Elmbridge
District	Wychavon
Shire county	Worcestershire
Region	West Midlands
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Droitwich
Postcode district	WR9
UK Parliament	Mid Worcestershire
List of places UK England Worcestershire 52.32°N 2.19°W / 52.32; -2.19

The village is 5 miles (8 km) NNW of Droitwich, but Cutnall Green is closer to 4 miles.[4]

St Michael's Church

The old stone parish church, much restored, has four very tall lancet windows to each side of the nave and a modest belltower topped by a tall stone spire. It is flanked by a scattering of tall trees.[5]

History

The Moule family of Snead's Green House were among the most prominent local landowners from the 1620s until the late nineteenth century, when the family died out in the male line.[4]

Deserted medieval village

Around St Michael's churchyard are the remains of a deserted medieval village. (It is a scheduled monument.) The abandonment may have been due to migration of the inhabitants to Cutnall Green; the period when this may have happened is not known.[6]

The remains of a moated manor house lie near the church: there is a circular platform, diameter about 50 metres (160 ft), within a moat up to 2.5 metres (8 ft 2 in) deep, now dry. 200 metres (660 ft) south of the church are the remains of the walls of a half-timbered mansion, built in 1635 and demolished in 1890, which may have originally replaced the moated manor house.[6]

To the south and west of the church are banks and ditches, remains of up to four houses with associated yards and garden plots. South of these are irregular enclosures that were stock pens or were used for cultivation. There are at least three trackways, running from the present-day lane, eastwards across the earthworks towards the moated site and church.[6]

References

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