172 GRIMLEY-CUM-HALLOW.

Elizabeth, when she visited Worcester, killed two bucks. The scene from hence is truly charming. The river flows through rich meadows towards the city of Worcester, whose spires appear in the distance overtopping the rich woods which are interposed between, while the blue range of the distant Cotswolds and Bredon hills, rising to the south-east, forms a pleasing boundary to the scene. There was formerly a purgative chalybeate spring in Hallow Park. Thorngrove is a handsome mansion in the parish, the residence of Major Middlemore, formerly inhabited by Lucien Bonaparte. Turnips, clover, wheat, barley, and beans, are grown in the parish, and the employment of the people is almost entirely agricultural. At Hallow about fifteen acres of glebe is let in quarter-acre allotments, and at Grimley Major Middlemore has also allotments. Population of Hallow, 1,507; acreage, 3,555. Population of Grimley, 776; acreage, 2,333.

Grimley is the mother church, being a vicarage; Hallow is its ancient chapelry, and a chapel has of late years been founded at Broadheath. Habingdon says:- "The parsonage of Grimley, with ye chappell of Hallowe thereunto annexed, whereof ye Prior and Convent were patrons, were appropriated to the Priorie of Worcester, because they had sustained exceeding damage by civill warrs which raged soe much in this land as the souldiers conversed not only about but also within thyer monasterie, and Pope Nicholas, with Godefrie, Bishop of Worcester, were likewise induced hereunto for raiseing the Priorie to be able to discharge the debts which oppressed them."

The late Bishop Pepys presented this living to his son, the Rev. H. G. Pepys, who still holds it; the valae is £535; church accommodation at Hallow, 520, of which 250 are free; at Grimley, 245, of which 95 are free; at Broadheath, 150, of which 120 are free. Grimley Church was restored some twenty years ago; it has some Norman work, with a fourteenth century tower; and the late Mr. Eginton, architect, added a new feature in an external covered stone staircase, leading