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Ombersley
The Kings Arms, Ombersley
OmbersleyLocation within Worcestershire
OS grid reference	SO844635
• London	103 miles
Civil parish	Ombersley
District	Wychavon
Shire county	Worcestershire
Region	West Midlands
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	DROITWICH
Postcode district	WR9
Dialling code	01905
Police	West Mercia
Fire	Hereford and Worcester
Ambulance	West Midlands
UK Parliament	Mid Worcestershire
List of places UK England Worcestershire 52°16′17″N 2°13′43″W / 52.271302°N 2.228711°W / 52.271302; -2.228711

Ombersley is a village and former civil parish in the Wychavon district, in the county of Worcestershire, England. Since 1973 it has been in the civil parish of Ombersley and Doverdale, which was created by combining the two existing parishes of Ombersley and Doverdale to form one of the largest parishes in the county. The parish includes Holt Fleet.

History

The first known reference to the village was the granting of a Charter to Abbot Egwin, later Saint Egwin, of Evesham Abbey in 706 AD. This was the Charter of King Æthelweard of the Hwicce, which granted twelve cassates in Ombersley to the Benedictine Abbey at Evesham.

During the reign of William the Conqueror, the Domesday Book indicates the village was within an exclave of the ancient hundred of Fishborough in 1086 and remained the property of the Abbey of Evesham (Saint Mary). It remained the property of the abbey until the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the early 16th century. By 1848 the village was within the parish of Ombersley (St. Ambrose), in the hundred of Oswaldslow.

Royal forest

Ombersley was part of a Royal forest until 1229. The forest gives the village its name.

Ombersley Court

Ombersley Court is the traditional home of the Lords Sandys, many of whom are buried in the family mausoleum in the churchyard of St Andrew's parish church. When St Andrew's was built in its current form between 1825 and 1829, the chancel of the old church was adapted for use as mausoleum for the lords of the manor. The architect of the church was Thomas Rickman; the cost of building was £18,000 of which two-thirds was contributed by Mary Sandys, dowager Marchioness of Downshire.

It is a Grade I listed building.

Location

Ombersley is 6 miles north of Worcester, 4 miles west of Droitwich, and 10 miles south of Kidderminster on the intersection of the A449 & A4133.

Notes

1. "Home - Ombersley & Doverdale Parish Council". www.odpc.co.uk. Retrieved 9 January 2022.
2. Article about Ombersley, The Birmingham Post (May 2006)
3. University of London & History of Parliament Trust (2003–2007). "Houses of Benedictine monks - Abbey of Evesham". British History Online. Retrieved 1 April 2007.
4. Open Domesday Online: Ombersley, accessed November 2017.
5. A Topographical Dictionary of England. Originally published by S Lewis, London, 1848. Pages 476-79.
6. "Parishes: Ombersley | British History Online". www.british-history.ac.uk. Retrieved 30 September 2020.
7. Sandys Mausoleum
8. Goodall, John (2015). Parish Church Treasures. London: Bloomsbury; p. 248
9. "Name: OMBERSLEY COURT List entry Number: 1172877". English Heritage. Retrieved 25 January 2018.

References and further reading

• 'Parishes: Ombersley', A History of the County of Worcester: volume 3 (1913), pp. 460-468.
• Staff. Ombersley Conservation Area Appraisal Wychavon District Council, June 2005

External links

• Photos of Ombersley and surrounding area on geograph
• Saint Andrew's Church website

• Villages in Worcestershire
• English royal forests
• Former civil parishes in Worcestershire
• Wychavon