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Overbury – a parish and township in the hundred of Oswaldslow, middle division, 4 miles N.E. from Tewkesbury, and 101 from London, on the borders of Gloucestershire; containing 90 inhabited houses. Large enclosures have lately taken place here, and the roads have been much improved. In the parish is a free-stone quarry, in which are great quantities of stalactites and encrustations. It is a vicarage, with Alstone, Teddington, and Washbourne annexed; Rev. T. Clark, incumbent; instituted 1821; in the patronage of the Dean and Chapter of Worcester. Population, 1801, 425 – 1811, 413 – 1821, 395.

Overbury-Park, in the above parish, is the residence of John Martin, Esq. M.P. for Tewkesbury. The house if seated at the foot of the Cotswould-hills, and surrounded with some very fine groves.

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.