Hill Croome
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| official_name = Hill Croome
| population = 169
| static_image = Hill Croome.jpg
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| static_image_caption = Hill Croome Church
| shire_district = Malvern Hills
| shire_county = Worcestershire
| region = West Midlands
| civil_parish = Hill Croome
| constituency_westminster = West Worcestershire
| postcode_district = WR8
| postcode_area = WR
| post_town = Worcester
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Hill Croome is a village, and a civil parish which covers 1000 acres, in the Malvern Hills District in the county of Worcestershire, England.[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=43130 British History on-line] Historically a parish in the lower division of the hundred of Oswaldslow,[http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/WOR/HillCroome/index.html Genuki details] according to the 2001 census the parish had a population of 169.[http://worcestershire.whub.org.uk/home/cs-research-census-populationreport.pdf Census data] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927003043/http://worcestershire.whub.org.uk/home/cs-research-census-populationreport.pdf |date=2007-09-27 }} Hill Croome was once part of the Royal forest of Horewell.* 'Parishes: Pershore, St Andrew with Defford and Wick', in A History of the County of Worcester: Volume 4, ed. William Page and J W Willis-Bund (London, 1924), pp. 163–177 http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/worcs/vol4/pp163-177 [accessed 30 August 2015]
History
{{see also|History of Worcestershire}}
A heritable messuage of land and a close in the hamlet of Baughton, which also lies in Hill Croome parish, were held in 1591 by John Turberville and his wife Joan under a lease from Thomas Walshe, Lord the Manor of Hill Croome.The Victoria County History of Worcestershire, online at - http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/worcs/vol3/pp319-322
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Category:Villages in Worcestershire
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