Birlingham Worcestershire Delineated C. and J. Greenwood 1822

Birlingham – a parish in the hundred of Pershore, upper division, 3 miles S.W. from Pershore, and 103 from London; containing 52 inhabited houses: the principal part of the freeholders in this parish farm their own land. This was formerly a chapelry to Nafford, but the mother church was destroyed long since, and Birlingham is now the parish church: it is a small neat edifice, in tolerable good repair. It is a rectory; Rev. Alexander Luders, incumbent in his own right. Population, 1801, 353 – 1811, 373 – 1821, 327.

Source: Worcestershire Delineated: Being a Topographical Description of Each Parish, Chapelry, Hamlet, &c. In the County; with the distances and bearings from their respective market towns, &c. By C. and J. Greenwood. Printed by T. Bensley, Crane Court, Fleet Street, London, 1822.