OMBERSLEY, a parish in the lower division of the
hundred of OSWALDSLOW, county of WORCESTER, 4
miles (W.) from Droitwich, containing, with the townships
of Borley, Hadley with Hay-Elms, Mayeux with
Chatley, Northampton-Parsonage with Powers, Ombersley,
Sychampton with Brookhampton and Comhampton,
Uphampton, Winnall with Acton and Dunhampton, 1814
inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the
archdeaconry and diocese of Worcester, rated in the
king's books at £ 15.7. 85., and in the patronage of the
Marchioness of Downshire. The church, dedicated to
St. Andrew, has lately been rebuilt, in the later style of
English architecture, and is now one of the most elegant
in the county: in the churchyard are the remains of an
ancient cross, supported on steps. The river Severn
passes through the parish. Here was formerly a market,
granted by Edward III., but it has been long
disused. A charity school was founded, in 1701, by
Thomas Tolley, to which Thomas Baker, in 1722, bequeathed
£100, and Richard Lloyd, in 1723, liberally
endowed it with land and houses.