The Bomfords of Worcestershire
FRAGMENTS
Extract from The Bomfords of Worcestershire by Dr Bruce Bomford FRCS, Salford Priors, 1983. The work was published privately and only a few copies were made. Re-published here with permission from Dr Bomford's sons.
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Albert Stanley, born 1871 of Cock Bevington was awarded the medal of the Royal Agricultural Society for long service, having worked 72 years with the Bomford family. Benjamin Bomford of Pitchill 1878-1880. R. and B. Bomford, Pitchill, 1880-1920. Douglas Bomford at Pitchill and Bevington thereafter.
New Inn Lane was formerly known as Horse Lane.
Bevington Waste was believed to be haunted.
Dunnington Heath was avoided at night, a gibbet once stood there with chains which creaked eerily.
“The Baptist Lane” ran from Atch Lench to Alcester, by Atch Lench Wood and Bevington Waste, between Woodcockthorn and Balloe Hill Wood.
Entry in records of Dunnington Chapel, “After a year of waiting patiently upon God for his Will to be revealed regarding a successor, the Church was led to invite the Rev. C.F. Perry of Leicester to the Pastorate”.
Ruth Jackson of Inkberrow, a great-great-great grand-daughter of Heming Bomford has a close connection with the Church at Atch Lench and is a well known authority on the Bomford family history.
Recent visitors to Worcestershire include Wilfred Turnstall Bomford from Saskatchewan, son of Edwin Wilfred Bomford, and S.W. MacDonald from Australia whose mother was descended from the Bomford family.