Bockleton, Worcestershire

Description
Bockleton, a parish in Worcestershire and Herefordshire, 5 miles S of Tenbury, and 8 E by N of Leominster. It includes the hamlet of Hampton Charles. Post town, Tenbury, which is the money order and telegraph office. Acreage, 2755; population of the civil parish, 238 ; of the ecclesiastical, 319. Bockleton Court is the seat of the lord of the manor. Bricks and drain-pipes are manufactured at Hampton Charles. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Hereford; gross value, £134 with residence. The church, which has been restored, is partly Norman, partly of the Decorated period; it has two Norman doorways, and a 16th century altar tomb. There is a mortuary chapel which belongs to the lord of the manor.