Inkberrow, Worcestershire

Description
Inkberro'w, a village and a parish in Worcestershire. The village stands near the boundary with Warwickshire, 5 1/2 miles W of Alcester station on the M.E. and G.W.R., and £ SSW of Redditch; and has a post and money order office under Redditch; telegraph office, Feckenham. The parish includes also Cookhill, Boutts, Cladswell, Holboro' Green, Stockwood, andStockgreen. Acreage, 6 879; population, 162 8. The manor belongs to the Marquis of Abergavenny. The land is hilly. A nunnery anciently stood at Cokehill; was founded by Gervase of Canterbury in the time of Richard I.; and was refonnded in 1260 by Isabella, Countess of Warwick, who became one of its nuns. Stone is quarried. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Worcester; net value, £334 with residence. Patron, the Marquis of Abergavenny. The church is large, chiefly Perpendicular, and contains sedilia and an altar-tomb of 1631. It was restored in 1888. There is a chapel of ease at Cookhill, and Baptist chapels at Inkberrow and Cokehill.