Blockley; The Manor House

Also known as, or recorded in historical documents as; Northwick

In the civil parish of Blockley.
In the historic county of Worcestershire (Modern Authority of Gloucestershire, 1974 county of Gloucestershire).

House immediately south of the Church. Site of the mediaeval summer palace of the Bishops of Worcester. Rebuilt before 1539 and remodelled in C18. Leland writes, in a list of premises belonging to the Bishop of Worcester, 'Northwick in the manor of Clains, two miles from Worcester. Until living memory Northwick belonged to John of Wodds, but was brought by a bishop because he had no house in Claines. It has a moat, and there used to be a park.'

This site has been described as a;
Palace.
The confidence that this site is a medieval fortification or palace is Possible.
Earthworks remains.

This site is a Grade 2* listed building protected by law*. (Images of England number 126829)

The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is SP16483489

Modern Map from

Good for landscape form and features

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Good for general location

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1st edition OS Map from

Sources of information, references and further reading

PastScape number; 330692

Books

Thompson, M.W., 1998, Medieval bishops' houses in England and Wales (Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing) p187
Page, Wm and Willis-Bund, J.W. (eds), 1913, VCH Worcestershire Vol3 p266, 270

Antiquarian (Histories and accounts from late medieval and early modern writers)

Chandler, John, 1993, John Leland's Itinerary: travels in Tudor England (Sutton Publishing) p518
Toulmin-Smith, Lucy (ed), 1910, The itinerary of John Leland in or about the years 1535-1543 (Bell and Sons; London) Vol5 p228

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*The listed building may not be the actual medieval building, but a building on the site of, or incorporating fragments of, the described site.

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