WELFORD, a parish partly in the Stratford division
of the hundred of BARLICHWAY, county of WARWICK,
but chiefly in the upper division of the hundred of DEERHURST,
county of GLOUCESTER, 4 miles (W. S. W.) from
Stratford on Avon, containing, with the hamlet of Bickmersh
with Little Dorsington, 702 inhabitants. The
living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry and diocese of
Gloucester, rated in the king's books at £29. 15. 10.,
and in the patronage of the Duke of Dorset. The
church, dedicated to the Holy Trinity, is. principally
in the Norman style, with a lofty tower crowned with
pinnacles. There is a place of worship for Wesleyan
Methodists.