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Upton-upon-Severn – a market town and parish in the hundred of Pershore, lower division, 10 miles S. from Worcester, and 110 from London; containing 464 inhabited houses. The town stands on the west bank of the river Severn, over which it has a stone bridge of six arches, built in 1605: it was partly destroyed in the civil wars, to prevent the Parliament army from crossing the river. The church is a neat building, erected in 1757, for which purpose the church lands were let on lease for 99 years; the span of the roof is the widest in England, except St. George’s, Hanover-square; the tower, which is very similar to St. Nicholas, Worcester, was built about 16 years afterwards; it is a pleasing object, and contains a good ring of bells. There is no manufacture in the town deserving of notice, but it has a considerable traffic by barges on the river Severn. The market is on Thursday; fairs, first Thursday after Midlent, Thursday in Whitsun-week, 2nd September, and Thursday before St. Matthew’s day. The living is a rectory; the Rev. Robert E. Baines, incumbent; instituted 1772; patron, the Bishop of Worcester. Population, 1801, 1858 – 1811, 2023 – 1821, 2319.

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.