Birtsmorton
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| Population | 257 |
| OS grid reference | [[[:Template:Ordnance Survey url]] SO799355] |
| • London | 100 miles (160 km) |
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| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | MALVERN |
| Postcode district | WR13 |
| Dialling code | 01684 |
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| Police | West Mercia |
| Fire | Hereford and Worcester |
| Ambulance | West Midlands |
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Birtsmorton is a village and civil parish in the Malvern Hills of Worcestershire, England, which at the 2021 census had a population of 257.[1] It is in the south-west of the county, not far from the borders with Herefordshire and Gloucestershire.
History
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In 1703, the Rev. Samuel Juice, a former rector, endowed a village school in Rye Street. [4]
Birtsmorton was the birthplace of the chairmaker Philip Clissett who lived in the parish from his birth in 1817 until about 1842.[5]
Toponymy
The village belonged to the Le Bret family from the 12th century onwards. Bret means Breton. The same family name is associated with Westonbirt House near Tetbury, Gloucestershire.[6] The name Morton derives from the Old English mōrtūn meaning 'settlement on the moor'.[7]
References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Birtsmorton". City population. Retrieved 14 April 2023.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."St Peter & St Paul, Birtsmorton - a church near you". Archived from the original on 13 May 2010. Retrieved 6 January 2010.
- ^ Birtsmorton Court Script error: No such module "webarchive".
- ^ British History Online "Birtsmorton". Online reference
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Rowell, T.A. "Philip Clissett, Chairmaker 1817-1913". Archived from the original on 18 July 2013. Retrieved 6 July 2013.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Ekwall, Eilert (1951). Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-Names. 3rd ed., reprinted with corrections. Oxford University Press. pp. 316, 485.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Birtsmorton". Key to English Place-Names. The Institute for Name-Studies. Retrieved 2 November 2025.
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