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Hanbury, Worcestershire Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Hanbury, Worcestershire

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Hanbury, Worcestershire history

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Pre-history

The Iron Age hill fort on Church Hill is the main feature surviving from prehistory. Remains of the embankments and ditch are well preserved on the north side of the hill, and are more faintly discernible on the south and east side. The area has been used as a burial ground from earliest Christian times.

Roman period and Dark Ages

Hanbury is only a few miles from the important salt producing centre of Droitwich (Roman Salinae) A copy of a charter from 660 AD exists which refers to the “minster” at Hanbury, which shows that Christian worship has taken place on Church Hill from at least that date.

Middle Ages

Feckenham was once a royal hunting park under the kings of Mercia. In 1301 the area of the Forest was reduced to only that part of the parish lying to the east of Church Hill was in the Forest. Gallows Green to the west of Hanbury on the Salt Way was the site of executions for forest law offences.

Since the Middle Ages

In 1559 the manor was transferred from the Bishop to the Crown. In 1590 it was granted to Sir Thomas and Lady Elizabeth Leighton – she was a relation of the Queen. Forest law was increasingly unenforced through the 14-1500s.

Disafforestation and riots

In 1629, the disafforestation of Feckenham forest was decreed after a commission. The 2100 acres (8.5 km) of woodland and waste in the forest parishes were partitioned between the crown, the manorial lords and the commoners. The response of the inhabitants was to refuse to accept their allocation of common land. A further commission reduced the Crown’s allocation in Hanbury from 550 to 460 acres, but this was still not accepted locally.

Land ownership to modern times

In 1631 Edward Vernon bought the manor and advowson from Leighton, and it remained in his family until modern times. In the first decade of the eighteenth century Thomas Vernon also built Hanbury Hall, a fine brick mansion, now the property of the National Trust. The other major landowners in Hanbury from at least 1412 were the Bearcroft family.

Enclosure Act 1781

Enclosure of common lands came late to most Worcestershire. Hanbury enclosed its common lands late, in 1781. The winners tended to be landowners and gentry.

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Best Hanbury, Worcestershire places to visit

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Hanbury, Worcestershire has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Hanbury, Worcestershire’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Hanbury, Worcestershire’s information audio spots:

St Mary the Virgin, Hanbury The church of St Mary the Virgin is an Anglican parish church in Hanbury, Worcestershire. Its earliest parts date from about 1210 and it is a Grade I listed building.

Hanbury Hall Hanbury Hall is a large 18th-century stately home standing in parkland at Hanbury, Worcestershire. The main range has two storeys and is built of red brick in the Queen Anne style.

Feckenham Forest Feckenham Forest was a royal forest, covering large parts of Worcestershire and Warwickshire. It was not entirely wooded, nor entirely the property of the King. The King had legal rights over game, wood and grazing within the forest. The forest boundaries were extended greatly during the reign of Henry II, expanding from 34 to 184 square miles.

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