Rock, Worcestershire

Description
Rock, a parish in Worcestershire, 5 miles SE of Cleobury Mortimer, and 4 1/2 SW of Bewdley. It has a post and money order office under Bewdley; telegraph office, Bewdley. It includes the chapelry of Heightington, the constablewicks of Alton, Lower Lindon, Upper Lindon, Hollin-with-Stildon, Rock-with-Sneade, and Moor-with-Conningswick, and the ecclesiastical district of Far Forest. The parish comprises 8772 acres; population of civil parish, 1603; of the ecclesiastical, 933. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Hereford ; net value, £637 with residence. The church is mainly Norman, partly of the 15th century, and was restored in 1861, with the exception of the tower, which was restored in 1881. Near the church are the ancient stocks and whipping post. A chapel of ease of 13th-century date, dedicated to St Giles and restored in 1892, is at Heightington, and a Wesleyan chapel is at Callow Hill.