Salwarpe, Worcestershire

Description
Salwarpe, a village and a parish in Worcestershire, on the Salwarpe river and the Droitwich Canal, 2 miles SW by W of Droitwich. Post office, Droitwich. Acreage, 1914; population of the civil parish, 409; of the ecclesiastical, 416. Salwarpe Court is an old half-timbered house, formerly the residence of the Talbot family, and now a farmhouse. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Worcester; net value, £330 with residence. The church was partly restored and partly rebuilt in 1848 and 1885, and has some Norman arches, Decorated aisles, and a Perpendicular tower. It contains a piscina, sedilia, a recumbent effigy of a priest of 1400, and tombs of the Talbot family.