ALDERMINSTER, a parish partly in the upper
division of the hundred of OSWALDSLOW, but chiefly iu
the upper division of the hundred of PERSHORE, being
a detached portion of the county of WORCESTER, surrounded
by Warwickshire, 5 miles (S. S. E.) from Stratford
upon, Avon, containing 443 inhabitants. The living
is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese
of Worcester, rated in the king's books at £7, endowed
with £200 private benefaction, and £200 royal
bounty, and in the patronage of the Crown. The
church, dedicated to St. Mary, is a curious cruciform
edifice, having a low tower; the nave is in the Norman
style of architecture. A recently constructed rail-road,
from Stratford upon Avon to Moreton in the Marsh,
passes through the village.