CASTLE-MORTON, a parish in the lower division
of the hundred of PERSHORE, county of WORCESTER,
5 miles (W. S. W.) from Upton upon Severn, containing
788 inhabitants. The living is a discharged perpetual
curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Longdon, in the
archdeaconry and diocese of Worcester, rated in' the
king's books at £ 5. 8. 6. The church, dedicated to
St. Gregory, is a very ancient structure, with a fine old
tower and steeple: opposite to it is an artificial mound,
fifty feet high, surrounded by a moat, or ditch, supposed
to have been thrown up to protect the church during
the civil war in the reign'bf Charles I. There are charitable
bequests for the poor amounting to about £30
per annum.