In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Headless Cross like this:
HEADLESS-CROSS, a village in Ipsley parish, Warwick, and Feckenham parish, Worcester, and a chapelry partly also in Tardebigg parish, Worcester. The village stands on the boundary between Warwick and Worcester, 2 miles W of Ipsley, and 5¼ SE of Bromsgrove r. station; and has a post office under Bromsgrove. ...
The chapelry was constituted in 1850. Pop., 1, 743. Houses, 387. Pop. of the Ipsley portion, 783. Houses, 169. Pop. of the Feckenham portion, 508. Houses, 114. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Worcester. Value, £102. * Patron, rotationally the Rector of Ipsley, the Vicar of Tardebigg, and the Vicar of Feckenham.
Headless Cross through time
Headless Cross is now part of Redditch district. Click here for graphs and data of how Redditch has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Headless Cross itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Headless Cross, in Redditch and Worcestershire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/21454
Date accessed: 26th April 2024
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