Shrawley, Worcestershire

Description
Shrawley, a parish, with a village, in Worcestershire, 5 miles S of Stourport. It has a post office under Stourport; money order and telegraph office, Great Witley. Acreage, 1941; population, 467. There is a parish council consisting of six members. Wood House is the chief residence. The manor belongs to the baronet family of Vernon. Shrawley Wood, nearly 500 acres in extent, is remarkable for having its underwood almost entirely formed of the small-leaved lime tree (Tilia microphylla), which is cut down periodically and sent to the Staffordshire Potteries to be used in the formation of crates. It also abounds in lily-of-the valley, and contains a rare grass and some rare fungi. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Worcester; net value, £222 with residence. The church stands on an eminence, and is chiefly Early English with some traces of Norman work. It contains monuments of the Cliffe, Piercy, Tolley, Bourne, and Vernon families. Under the E window is an ancient stone coffin-lid which was dug up in the churchyard.