Bockleton
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| Population | 190 |
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| OS grid reference | SO592614 |
| – London | 119 miles (192 km) |
| Civil parish | Stoke Bliss |
| District | Malvern Hills District |
| Shire county | Worcestershire |
| Region | West Midlands |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | TENBURY WELLS |
| Postcode district | WR15 |
| Dialling code | 01568 |
| Police | West Mercia |
| Fire | Hereford and Worcester |
| Ambulance | West Midlands |
| EU Parliament | West Midlands |
| UK Parliament | West Worcestershire |
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Coordinates: 52°14′59″N 2°35′52″W / 52.249846°N 2.597834°W
Bockleton is a village and a constituent part of the civil parish of Stoke Bliss in the Malvern Hills of Worcestershire, England, five miles south of Tenbury Wells. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 190. It is close to the Herefordshire border and is about nine miles east of Leominster in Herefordshire.
The parish church of St Michael has an 1867 monument, in white marble, by Pre-Raphaelite sculptor Thomas Woolner to William Prescott, a local squire who died from an infection caught after tending his sick gamekeeper. It depicts him nursing the aged man.[1]
Bockleton was in the upper division of Doddingtree Hundred.[2]
References
- ↑ Pevsner, Nikolaus (1968) The Buildings of England: Worcestershire
- ↑ Worcestershire Family History Guidebook, Vanessa Morgan, 2011, p20 The History Press, Stroud, Gloucestershire.
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