Elmley Lovett

Elmley Lovett
Elmley Lovett
	St Michael's church is a grand and medievalesque reconstruction of a much earlier church, such as its centuries-old spire
	Steps and trees at Elmley Lovett, sketched in 1850
	Elmley Lovett Location within Worcestershire
Area	7.82 km2 (3.02 sq mi)
Population	314 (2011 census)[1]
• Density	40/km2 (100/sq mi)
Civil parish	Elmbridge;
District	Wychavon;
Shire county	Worcestershire;
Region	West Midlands;
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Droitwich
Postcode district	WR9
UK Parliament	Mid Worcestershire;

Elmley Lovett in Worcestershire, England is a civil parish whose residents' homes are quite loosely clustered east of its Hartlebury Trading Estate, as well as in minor neighbourhood Cutnall Green to the near south-east. The latter is a loosely linear settlement that includes a pub-restaurant and farm shop on the Elmley Lovett side of the boundaries; it continues passing its near-square public green into the parish of Elmbridge, a similarly sized parish over to the east.[2][3]

The village is 5 miles (8 km) NNW of Droitwich, but Cutnall Green is closer to 4 miles.[4]

St Michael's Church

The old stone parish church, much restored, has four very tall lancet windows to each side of the nave and a modest bell tower topped by a tall stone spire. It is flanked by a scattering of tall trees.[5]

History

The Moule family of Snead's Green House were among the most prominent local landowners from the 1620s until the late nineteenth century, when the family died out in the male line.[4]

Deserted medieval village

Earthworks of the medieval village

Around St Michael's churchyard are the remains of a deserted medieval village. (It is a scheduled monument.) The abandonment may have been due to the migration of the inhabitants to Cutnall Green; the period when this may have happened is not known.[6]

The remains of a moated manor house lie near the church: there is a circular platform, diameter about 50 metres (160 ft), within a moat up to 2.5 metres (8 ft 2 in) deep, now dry. 200 metres (660 ft) south of the church are the remains of the walls of a half-timbered mansion, built in 1635 and demolished in 1890, which may have originally replaced the moated manor house.[6]

To the south and west of the church are banks and ditches, remains of up to four houses with associated yards and garden plots. South of these are irregular enclosures that were stock pens or were used for cultivation. There are at least three trackways, running from the present-day lane, eastwards across the earthworks towards the moated site and church.[6]

Public junction and approach to a more elaborate than usual farmhouse - the area is archetypically lined with trees.

References

Nomis Web - UK Government - KS101EW - Usual resident population (2011 census) Retrieved 2019-05-04.
"Parish web-site". Archived from the original on 12 June 2012. Retrieved 30 December 2012.
Ecclesiastical parish map
British history on-line
Geograph
Historic England. "Medieval settlement immediately surrounding St Michael's Church (1017254)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 20 July 2021.

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[1] Nomis Web - UK Government - KS101EW - Usual resident population (2011 census) Retrieved 2019-05-04.

[2] "Parish web-site". Archived from the original on 12 June 2012. Retrieved 30 December 2012.

[3] Ecclesiastical parish map

[bh-4] British history on-line

[5] Geograph

[nhle-6] Historic England. "Medieval settlement immediately surrounding St Michael's Church (1017254)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 20 July 2021.