Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for UPTON-UPON-SEVERN

UPTON-UPON-SEVERN, a small town, a parish, a sub-district, and a district, in Worcester. The town stands on the river Severn, and on the Malvern and Tewkesbury railway, 5½ miles NNW of Tewkesbury; was occupied by Cromwell's troops, before the battle of Worcester; is a seat of petty sessions and a polling place; comprises several good streets; and has a post-office‡ under Worcester, a r. station, a banking office, two chief inns, a town hall with market house and assembly-rooms, a bridge rebuilt in 1853, a church in the modern Italian style with a cupola-tower, Baptist and Roman Catholic chapels, a cemetery of 1865, with a chapel in the early English style, a mechanics' institute with reading room and library, an endowed school with £40 a year, a workhouse, charities £86, a weekly market on Thursday, and four annual fairs.—The parish comprises 3,170 acres. Real property, £11,662. Pop., 2,676. Houses, 552. The manor, with Ham Court, belongs to J. J. Martin, Esq. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Worcester. Value, £917.* Patron, the Bishop of W.—The sub-district contains 7 parishes, and a part. Acres, 20,604. Pop., 6,122. Houses, 1,323.—The district includes also Hanley and Kempsey sub-district, and comprises 53,016 acres. Poor rates in 1863, £10,820. Pop. in 1851, 18,070; in 1861, 21,010. Houses, 4,155. Marriages in 1863, 130; births, 625,- of which 41 were illegitimate; deaths, 432,-of which 117 were at ages under 5 years, and 17 at ages above 85. Marriages in the ten years 1851-60, 1,188; births, 5,528; deaths, 3,912. The places of worship, in 1851, were 23 of the Church of England, with 6,713 sittings; 1 of Independents, with 50 s.; 1 of Baptists, with 260 s.; 5 of Wesleyans, with 561 s.; 1 of Lady Huntingdon's Connexion, with 350 s.; and 4 of Roman Catholics, with 857 s. The schools were 20 public day-schools, with 1,565 scholars; 22 private day-schools, with 369 s.; 15 Sunday schools, with 1,020 s.; and 2 evening schools for adults, with 11 s.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

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Feature Description: "a small town, a parish, a sub-district, and a district"   (ADL Feature Type: "cities")
Administrative units: Upton upon Severn CP/AP       Upton on Severn SubD       Upton upon Severn RegD/PLU       Worcestershire AncC
Place: Upton upon Severn

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