BUSHLEY, a parish in the. lower  division of the
hundred of PERSHORE, county of WORCESTER, 2 miles
(N. W.)  from Tewkesfeury, containing 366 inhabitants.
The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry
and diocese of "Worcester, endowed with £400 royal
bounty, and £200 parliamentary grant, and'in the patronage
of T. Dowdeswell, Esq. The church is dedicated
to St. Peter. Here is a small charity school, supported
by Miss Dowdeswell. .The eastern boundary bf
this parish is formed by t"he river Severn, into which
the Avon falls from the opposite side, below Tewkefsbury,
in Gloucestershire.