DODDERHILL, a parish partly within the borough of DROITWICH, but chiefly in the upper division of the hundred of HALFSHIRE, county of WORCESTER, 1 mile (N.) from Droitwich, containing, with the chapelry of Elmbridge, 1565 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Worcester, rated in the king's books at £ 12. 12. 3., and in the patronage of George Penrice, Esq. The church, dedicated to St. Augustine, is a curious edifice, which having been partly destroyed in the parliamentary war, and rebuilt, consists of the north transept of a Norman. church, with a chancel of later date, and a tower in place of the south transept. A free chapel, or hospital, was founded in the 13th of Edward I., and dedicated to St. Mary, by William de Dovere, for a master and poor brethren, who were under the government of the prior of Worcester, and whose lands, at the suppression of. free chapels in the reign of Edward VI., were valued at £21. 11. 8.