WOLFORD (GREAT), a parish in the Brails division
of the hundred of KINGTON, county of WARWICK,
4 miles (S. by W.) from Shipston upon Stour,
containing, with the hamlet of Little Wolford, 529 inhabitants.
The living is a discharged vicarage, in the
archdeaconry and diocese of Worcester, rated in the
king's books at £8, endowed with £400 private benefaction,
£200 royal bounty, and £300 parliamentary grant,
and in the patronage of the Warden and Fellows of
Merton College, Oxford. The church is dedicated to
St. Michael.