GRIMLEY, a parish in the lower division of the hundred of OSWALDSLOW, county of WORCESTER, 4 miles (N. by w.) from Worcester, containing 666 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Worcester, rated in the Icing's books at £14. 0. 10., endowed with £10 per annum private benefaction, and £200 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Bishop of Worcester. The church is dedicated to St. Bartholomew. There is a chapel of ease at Hallow, in this parish: on the east flows the river Severn, over which is a ferry. There are several plantations of hops; and in Hallow park is a mineral spring of similar properties to the Cheltenham water.