BOCKLETON, a parish partly in the hundred of
BROXASH, county of HEREFORD, but chiefly in the
upper division of the hundred of DODDINGTREE, county
of WORCESTER, 5 miles (S.) from Tenbury, containing,
with the hamlet of Hampton-Charles, 385 inhabitants.
The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of
Salop, and diocese of Hereford, endowed with £400 private
benefaction, and £400 royal bounty, and in the patronage
of John Bleke Lye, Esq., M. D. The church is
dedicated to St. Michael. A school, in which about one
hundred and seventy boys and girls are instructed is
supported partly by subscription, but chiefly by the Rev
T. E. Miller.