Eldersfield

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Malvern Hills

Worcestershire

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51°58′43″N 2°17′31″W / 51.978635°N 2.291944°W / 51.978635; -2.291944

The sign that hangs in front of the Greyhound pub by local artist **Kate Sanger-Davies**

Eldersfield is a village and civil parish in the Malvern Hills district of Worcestershire, England. It had a population of 584 in 2021.^[1]

It stands exactly ten miles east of Ledbury and ten miles north of Gloucester; this fact can be found on a milestone on the side of the B4211 road that runs through Corse Lawn.

History

Gadbury Camp

The Iron Age fort of Gadbury Camp can be found in the parish, to the east of the village, on a hill overlooking the river valley of the Leadon and Severn. It was surrounded by a single massive rampart, making it a rare "univallate" construction. The camp area is 10 acres, is 100m wide at its widest point and has 400m of ramparts. It was settled during the fourth century BC to first centuries AD, and would have been a place where subsistence and craft goods were redistributed. Finds at the site include an Iron Age statue and Roman coins.^[2]

It is now a listed monument.^[3]

Parish Church

The parish church is dedicated to St. John the Baptist and is in the Diocese of Worcester.^[4] The parish registers survive from 1718, and there are bishops' transcripts for the earlier registers starting in 1561.^[5]

In 1619, the vicar of Eldersfield Gerard Prior preached against the use of Sunday's for leisure and games, under the Declaration of Sports, asking that "the King's heart might be turned from profanenes, vanity and popery". He was suspended, but later reinstated.^[6]

The Savage family were the local worthies and numerous of their 17th-century tombs in the church and graves in the churchyard were recorded by Treadway Russell Nash c1780, including Christopher Savage gent. (1600-1681).^[7]

Enclosure of Commons

Acts for enclosing lands were passed in 1836, 1840 and 1861.^[6]

References

^ "Eldersfield". City population. Retrieved 2 May 2023.
^ Anon (2015). "Gadbury Camp A Scheduled Monument in Eldersfield, Worcestershire". Ancient Monuments. Good Stuff.
^ Historic England (2015). "Gadbury Camp, Eldersfield (1005329)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 13 July 2018.
^ Church of England, Diocese of Worcester. "St. John the Baptist, Eldersfield".
^ Good, William. "Eldersfield Registers".
^ ^a ^b 'Parishes: Eldersfield', in A History of the County of Worcester: Volume 4, ed. William Page and J W Willis-Bund (London, 1924), pp. 76-83. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/worcs/vol4/pp76-83 [accessed 20 December 2020].
^ Collections for the History of Worcestershire, 2 vols. by Treadway Russell Nash, 1781/2.

External links

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Eldersfield entry in A History of the County of Worcester: volume 4
Eldersfield Church
Eldersfield Marsh
Marsh Court
The Pigeon House
Eldersfield entry in John Noake's Guide to Worcestershire (1868)
Eldersfield 1891 Census Results

Settlements in Malvern Hills District

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Civil parishes in the Malvern Hills district

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Gloucestershire	Cleeve Hill Kimsbury Camp Uley Bury
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Hertfordshire	Arbury Banks Wilbury Hill Camp
Kent	Bigbury Camp Oldbury Camp
Lancashire	Castercliff Portfield Warton Crag
Leicestershire	Burrough Hill
Norfolk	Bloodgate Hill Holkham Camp Warham Camp
North Yorkshire	Eston Nab Maiden Castle Stanwick Camp
Northamptonshire	Borough Hill Hunsbury Hill Rainsborough Camp
Northumberland	Castle Knowe Humbleton Hill Yeavering Bell
Oxfordshire	Blewburton Hill Cherbury Camp Hardwell Castle Uffington Castle
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Surrey	Caesar's Camp Hascombe Hill Holmbury Hill
West Sussex	Chanctonbury Ring Cissbury Ring Goosehill Camp Harting Beacon Highdown Hill Thundersbarrow Hill The Trundle Torberry Hill
West Yorkshire	Castle Hill
Wiltshire	Ashleys Copse Barbury Castle Battlesbury Camp Bratton Castle Bury Camp Castle Ditches Casterley Camp Castle Rings Chisbury Chiselbury Chisenbury Camp Clearbury Ring Cley Hill Fosbury Camp Grovely Castle Knook Castle Liddington Castle Membury Camp Old Sarum Ringsbury Camp Roundway Down Scratchbury Camp Sidbury Hill Vespasian's Camp Winkelbury Camp Yarnbury Castle
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