Bushley, Worcestershire

Description
Bushley, a village and a parish in Worcestershire, on the Severn, 1 1/2 mile NNW of Tewkesbury, with a post office under Tewkesbury, which is the money order and telegraph office. Acreage of parish, 1834; population, 306. Pull Court, the seat of the lord of the manor, is situated in an extensive well-wooded park, which contains some fine cedars of Lebanon ; the mansion was rebuilt in 1835. The manor belonged formerly to the Abbey of Tewkesbury, and in the reign of James I. came into the possession of the Dowdeswell family, in whose hands it has remained till the present day. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Worcester; gross value, £355. The church was rebuilt in 1843, the chancel being erected by Sir Gilbert Scott in 1865. It contains monuments to the Dowdeswell family, among which is one to William Dowdeswell, who was Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1765, and bears an epitaph from the pen of Edmund Burke ; there is an ancient brass.