TARDEBIGG, a parish partly in the Alcester division
of the hundred of BARLICHWAY, county of WARWICK,
but chiefly in the upper division of the hundred
of HALFSHIRE, county of" WORCESTER, 3 miles (E. SE.)
from Bromsgrove, containing, with the hamlets or
Bentley, Redditch, Tutnal with Cobley, and Wibheatb-
Yields, 3458 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, in
the archdeaconry and diocese of Worcester, rated m the
king's books at £8, and in the patronage of the Earl 01
Plymouth. The church is dedicated to St. Bartholomew.
At Redditch, in this parish, is a manufacture of
needles and fish-hooks. The Birmingham and Worcester
canal passes through a short tunnel in the parish.