HANBURY, a parish in the Middle division of the
hundred of OSWALDSLOW, county of WORCESTER, 4
miles (E. by N.) from Droitwich, containing 1042 inhabitants.
The living is a rectory, rated in the king's
books at £29. 16. 8., in the peculiar jurisdiction of the
Rector, but wills are always proved in the presence of
the Bishop's registrar at Worcester, and are deposited
in the registry there: it is in the patronage of T. T.
Vernon, Esq. The church, dedicated to St. John the
Baptist, stands upon a very lofty eminence: it is in
the early, decorated, and later, English styles of architecture,
and contains some elegant monuments .to the
Vernons; The Birmingham and Worcester canal passes
through the parish, and in the neighbourhood is a salt
spring. The Rev. Thomas Vernon, in 1627, founded a
charity school in this parish, and Thomas Vernon, Esq.,
in 1711, gave certain lands towards its support, besides
£300 for apprenticing poor children.