Welford on Avon, Gloucestershire

Description
Welford or Welford-on-Avon, a village in Gloucestershire, and a parish partly also in Warwickshire. The village stands on the river Avon, 1 1/2 mile W by N of Milcote station on the G.W.R., and 4 miles SW of Stratford-on-Avon, and has a post and telegraph office under Stratford-on-Avon; money order office, Bidford. The parish comprises 3120 acres, of which 1853 are in Gloucestershire; population, 591, of whom 461 are in Gloucestershire. The Warwickshire portion consists of the hamlets of Bickmarsh and Little Dorsington. There is a parish council consisting of five members. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol; net value, £252 with residence. Patron, Lord Sackville. The church is partly Norman, and was restored in 1867. The tower was destroyed by fire in 1884, but was rebuilt in 1885.