Hill Croome is a village, and a civil parish which covers 1000 acres, in the Malvern Hills District in the county of Worcestershire, England.[1] Historically a parish in the lower division of the hundred of Oswaldslow,[2] according to the 2001 census the parish had a population of 169.[3] Hill Croome was once part of the Royal forest of Horewell.[4]
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Population | 169 |
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Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | Worcester |
Postcode district | WR8 |
Police | West Mercia |
Fire | Hereford and Worcester |
Ambulance | West Midlands |
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A heritable messuage of land and a close in the hamlet of Baughton, which also lies in Hill Croome parish, were held in 1591 by John Turberville and his wife Joan under a lease from Thomas Walshe, Lord the Manor of Hill Croome.[5]
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