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Powick – a parish in the hundred of Pershore, lower division, 2 miles S.S.W. from Worcester, and 113 from London; containing 287 inhabited houses. It is a pleasant village, seated on the river Teme, which falls into the Severn in this neighbourhood. This place gives the title of Earl to the noble family of Lygon, elevated to the peerage a few years since, for their loyalty and attachment to the king. The church is an ancient Gothic structure, standing on an eminence, and presents a pleasant object, but contains nothing worthy of particular note. It is recorded of Eleazar Jackson, incumbent of this place during the civil wars, that being called upon to take the Solemn League and Covenant, he required that they would allow him till the following morning to consider of it. When applied to the next day, he stated that he had left it upon his table the preceding evening, and in the night some rogues had broken in, and stolen whatever they considered valuable; but, rogues as they were, they had not taken the Solemn League and Covenant, and therefore he must beg to be excused. The living is a vicarage; Rev. J. F. S. F. St. John, incumbent; instituted 1816; patron, the Earl of Coventry. Population, 1801, 1172 – 1811, 1219 – 1821, 1360.

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.