Spetchley, Worcestershire

Description
Spetchley, a parish in Worcestershire, 3 miles E by S of Worcester. It has a goods station on the Birmingham and Bristol section of the M.R., and a post office under Worcester; money order office, Worcester; telegraph office at the railway station. Acreage, 780; population of the civil parish, 134; of the ecclesiastical, with Warndon, 310. Spetchley Park is the seat of a branch of the Berkeley family. The mansion was built in 1810, and has a Roman Catholic chapel attached. The park is extensive, and contains an avenue of noble elms nearly a mile in length, a fine sheet of water, and herds of red and fallow deer. The living is a rectory, annexed to that of Warndon, in the diocese of Worcester; joint gross value, £300. The church is in the Decorated style of architecture, and includes a mortuary chapel with monuments of the Berkeley family.