GRIMLEY, a parish in Martley district, Worcestershire; on the river Severn, 4 miles NNW of Worcester r. station. It has a post office under Worcester. Acres, 2, 459. Real property, £5, 097. Pop., 776. house, 1 88. The property is much subdivided. Thorngrove Hall and Sinton Cinrt are chief residences; and the former, for several years prior to 1814, was occupied by Lucien Buonaparte. The living is a vicarage, united with Hallow chapelry and Christ's chapel, Broadheath, in the diocese of Worcester. Value, £541.* Patron, the Bishop of Worcester. The church has a Norman doorway; is partly early English, partly perpendicular; consists of nave and chancel, with a tower; and contains some ancient monuments. There are a national school, and charities, £196. Bishop Hooper was a native.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))