Rochford, Worcestershire

Rochford
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Rochford  Rochford shown within Worcestershire
Population	228
OS grid reference	SO629684
– London	144mi
Civil parish	Rochford
District	Malvern Hills
Shire county	Worcestershire
Region	West Midlands
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	TENBURY WELLS
Postcode district	WR15
Dialling code	01299
Police	West Mercia
Fire	Hereford and Worcester
Ambulance	West Midlands
EU Parliament	West Midlands
UK Parliament	West Worcestershire
List of places UK England Worcestershire

Coordinates: 52°18′45″N 2°32′43″W / 52.312478°N 2.545216°W / 52.312478; -2.545216

Rochford consists of the hamlets of Lower Rochford and Upper Rochford. It is a civil parish in the Malvern Hills District near Tenbury Wells. The parish is within the county of Worcestershire, England. The county town of Worcestershire is Worcester, which is located 18 miles (29 km) south east of Rochford.

The chapelry of Rochford was an exclave of Herefordshire, part of the hundred of Wolphy. It was transferred by the Counties (Detached Parts) Act 1844 to Worcestershire.

History

Data from the first UK census in 1801 is available for the parish of Rochford. At the time of the first census the recorded population was 258^[1]. Since then the population has fluctuated between 200 - 300 people. The highest population was recorded in 1881 which showed the population at 319 people, 61 people more than in 1801. The lowest population for the parish was in 1961 when it was 201 people. The census data for 2001 and 2011 showed a decrease between the two censuses. ^[2]

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Rochford like this

ROCHFORD, a parish, with a village, in Tenbury district, Worcester; on the river Teme, 2¾ miles E of Tenbury r. station. It has a post-office under Tenbury, Pop., 315.The church is Norman, and was restored and enlarged in 1865.^[3]

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