Cotheridge, Worcestershire

Description
Cotheridge, a parish in Worcestershire, on the river Teme, 4 miles W of Worcester. It has a post office under Worcester; money order and telegraph office, Worcester. Acreage, 2144; population of the civil parish, 196 ; of the ecclesiastical, 201. Cotheridge Court, the seat of the Berkeley family, who are lords of the manor, stands amid extensive grounds, and is approached by a straight avenue of lofty trees half a mile long. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Worcester; value, £40. The church is chiefly Perpendicular, and has an arched partition between nave and chancel, one of the arches of which is Norman. The chancel is paved with ancient tiles, some of which bear heraldic devices and other inscriptions.