Leigh, Worcestershire

Description
Leigh, a parish in Worcestershire, on the river Teme, 4 1/4miles WSW of Worcester. It contains the hamlets of Leigh Sinton, Link End, Sandlin, Sherridge, Brockamin, Lower Howsell, Upper Howsell, part of Cow Leigh, the chapelry of Bransford, and most of the locality of Malvern Link adjoining Great Malvern. There is a post office called Leigh, under Worcester; money order and telegraph office, Worcester. There is a station (Leigh Court) on the Worcester and Brom-yard section, and another at Bransford Road on the Worcester and Hereford section of the G.W.R. Acreage, 6685; population of the civil parish, 5171; of the ecclesiastical, 1152. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Worcester; net value, £246 with residence. The church is of various dates, but chiefly of the 12th century; comprises nave, chancel, south aisle, with Bransford chapel, and W tower; has, over the N door, a remarkable ancient sculpture in a recess supported by Norman pillars, and contains a curiously carved ancient screen, a Norman font, a fine monument of Sir Walter Devereux, and a number of ancient monuments and relics. A chapel of ease is at Bransford and a school chapel at Leigh Sinton. Malvern Link and Cow Leigh are separate ecclesiastical parishes. There are Wesleyan and the Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion chapels.