Catalogue description Upper Wick [in Rushwick]. Articles of agreement between William Bund of Worcester City,...

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Reference: 899:749/8782/57/20
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Upper Wick [in Rushwick]. Articles of agreement between William Bund of Worcester City, gentleman, eldest son and heir of Thomas Bund, late of Upper Wick in St. Johns in Bedwardine [now in Rushwick] gentleman deceased, Mary Parsons of Chaceley, spinster daughter and heiress of John Parsons, late of Overbury, esquire by Dorothy his first wife, both deceased, Charles Higford of Ashton under Hill, esquire, Richard Buckle of Chaceley aforesaid, gentleman, Robert Wylde of the Commandery, Worcester City, esquire and John Vernon of Hanbury, clerk, being a settlement upon the marriage of the said William Bund and Mary Parsons of a messuage and a half yardland, Bumms Close, a piece of meadow in a meadow called Further Abbey, a road leading from the messuage to Oatmill Meadow Gate; a cottage and parcel of land, meadow ground called Little Hirtlebridge Meadow, arable land in a commonfield called Stenfield, meadow adjoining to Powicks Neights on the east and the River Teme on the south, meadow called Dolespleck adjoining Houlberry Meadow on the west, Batchelors New Teame on the east and the said Hartlebridge Meadow on the north, a further piece of meadow called the Banning adjoining meadow called the Rotten on the north; several other closes called the Long Rudge, The Upper Tyning (now converted into a cherry orchard), The Lower Tyning, Outmill Meadow, The Pleck at the bottom of the Field, The Bryery Pleck and the Lower Meadow; a cottage at Broadmore Green and various lands including meadow in the upper end of the Common Hamm, Flagland Meadow, pasture called the Rotten adjoining to the Tyning and a common field called Lesterns Field on the north; a headland in the said Lesterns Field abutting on land called the Moors at the east and other land in Lesterns Field including four ridges abutting on Hels Meadow on the east and on lands called the Tyning on the south, one ridge lying near the Lech Hills, three lands abutting the roadway leading from Worcester to Bransford, arable land in Hitchey Field abutting the highway leading from Bransford to Worcester at the south and Broadmore Green on the east, arable land in Parkefield abutting on land called Westway on the east, other lands in Barradine field near the corner of Rushwick hedge and in a place called the Deane, lands in a field called the Rowde, further lands in Stenfield shooting towards the River Lawerne at the north and land in the same field at a place called Popehill, a meadow called the Sling, meadow called the Hither Abbey adjoining the River Teme on the south and west and Holbury Meadow on the north, and meadow in the manor of Wick Episcopi.

Date: 1735
Held by: Worcestershire Archive and Archaeology Service, not available at The National Archives
Former reference in its original department: Island Case 10'
Language: English

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