Friday, 20 January 2012

R.A.Wilson's survey of the Witley parish churches

Canon R.A.Wilson was the rector of Great Witley from 1910 until his retirement in 1945. In 1923 he produced a short document entitled "A survey of the Parish Church of Witley and Great and Little Witley Chapels" for the Bishop of Worcester's  Advisory Committee, a copy of which I have recently acquired. It is a very interesting booklet, though much of the information it contains has been amended by more recent research, but nevertheless it is a most valuable item, not least because it contains a list of rectors dating back to the thirteenth century.