The Parish of Salford Priors
Welcome to Salford Priors. We are situated in the south west corner of the
county of Warwickshire in
England almost as far from the coast as you can get.
The parish comprises seven main settlements, Abbot’s Salford, The Bevingtons, Dunnington, Iron Cross, Pitchill, Rushford and
Salford Priors. The largest of these settlements is
Salford Priors. The Parish is almost midway between the towns of Evesham, Stratford-upon-Avon, and Redditch. The settlements are in open farmland where the main crops are vegetables and particularly asparagus and salad onions.
There are several Grade II listed buildings located mainly in the conservation area along Evesham Road and Station Road in Salford Priors. There are others in the parish at Pitchill, Dunnington Farmhouse, Wood Bevington Manor and Cock Bevington Farm House. St Matthew’s Church in Salford Priors, originally Anglo Saxon, and Salford Hall in Abbots Salford, once a Jacobean nunnery, now a hotel and conference centre, are both Grade I listed buildings.
For visitors, in addition to the Church and listed buildings, a major attraction is the network of footpaths which traverse the parish and enable walkers to really “get away from it all”! The Parish Council publishes a booklet showing the paths and this can be obtainabed on request from the Clerk at clerk@salfordpriors.gov.uk. at a cost of just £3.00.
