Castle Morton, Worcestershire

Description
Castle-Morton or Morton-Foliot, a village and a parish in Worcestershire, under the Malvern Hills, 4 1/2 miles SW by W of Upton-on-Severn, and 3 1/2 S by E of Malvern Wells station on the M.R., with a post office under Tewkesbury; money order office, Welland; telegraph office, Malvern Wells. Acreage, 3701; population, 720. A castle of the De Montes stood here, but has long since disappeared. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Worcester; gross value, £300. Patron, the Dean and Chapter of Westminster. The church is ancient, with a Norman doorway, and was restored in 1880, and a chapel of ease for the outlying portions of Castle-Morton and Berrow was erected in 1869 at the point where the dioceses of Worcester, Gloucester and Bristol, and Hereford meet. There is an almshouse for poor persons.