In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England
and Wales described Fladbury like this: FLADBURY, a village in
Pershore district, and a parish partly also in Evesham and
Droitwich districts, Worcester. The village stands on the river
Avon, adjacent to the West Midland railway, 3 miles E of
Pershore; was anciently known as Fleathanbyrig; and has a
station on the railway, and a post office under Pershore. The
parish includes also the hamlets of Abbots-Lench and Hill and
Moor, and the chapelries of Wyre-Piddle, Throckmorton, and Stock
and Bradley. Acres, 7, 862. Real property, £8, 558. ... Pop., 1,
514. Houses, 338. The property is subdivided. The manor was
given, in 671, by Etheldred to Bishop Ostforus. The living is a
rectory, united with the p. curacies of Wyre-Piddle and
Throckmorton, in the diocese of Worcester. Value, £721.* Patron,
the Bishop of Worcester. The church is ancient, and contains
some interesting monuments; and the chancel was restored in
1865. The chapelry of Bradley became a s