The Throckmortons

Abstract

The Throckmortons spring from a place of that name in the parish of Fladbury in Worcestershire, between Evesham and Pershore, in that delectable country of meadows and orchards dominated by Bredon Hill. The parish is mostly contained within a loop of the Warwickshire Avon; but between the water-meads of Fladbury and the moated grange of Throckmorton comes the ridge of Craycombe Hill — wood and pasture and fruit-orchards — rising above the meandering medieval lanes. Here the Throckmortons were established in the later Middle Ages, were certainly to be found in the thirteenth century, cultivating their fields, making their marriages, being gathered to their fathers in the churches of Throckmorton and Fladbury.