Catalogue description Certificate of the Constable and Overseers of the highways at Warndon and Henlipe that the highways with the bridge in Moor Lane which leads to the City of Worcester is in great decay from a place there at Smite Elme Tree to a place called Oatehill partly by default of the inhabitants of Warrenton Henlipe and Taladine and of Richard Woolley Minister of Henlipe and of Roger Heming who has made an encroachment in the narrowest part thereof so that the highway between his close of pasture and the meadows of Mr. Woolley's temporal lands belonging to his farm at "Cuphill" is a most dangerous lake "but the greatest decay of the said Moor Lane is the not scouring of the watercourse because it is a work that cannot be done but in summer time."

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Title: Certificate of the Constable and Overseers of the highways at Warndon and Henlipe that the highways with the bridge in Moor Lane which leads to the City of Worcester is in great decay from a place there at Smite Elme Tree to a place called Oatehill partly by default of the inhabitants of Warrenton Henlipe and Taladine and of Richard Woolley Minister of Henlipe and of Roger Heming who has made an encroachment in the narrowest part thereof so that the highway between his close of pasture and the meadows of Mr. Woolley's temporal lands belonging to his farm at "Cuphill" is a most dangerous lake "but the greatest decay of the said Moor Lane is the not scouring of the watercourse because it is a work that cannot be done but in summer time."
Date: 9 April 1633
Held by: Worcestershire Archive and Archaeology Service, not available at The National Archives
Language: English

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