RIBBESFORD, a village and a parish in Kidderminster district, Worcester. The village stands on the river Severn, ¾ of a mile S of Bewdley r. station; and was once a market-town. The parish contains also the borough of Bewdley and part of the chapelry of Far-Forest. Post-town, Bewdley. Acres, 4, 430. Rated property, exclusive of Bewdley, £1, 466. Pop., exclusive of Bewdley and Far-Forest, 253. Houses, 52. Pop. of the whole, in 1851, 3, 435; in 1861, 3, 158. Houses, 738. The manor belongs to the Earl of Dudley. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Hereford. Value, £360. Patron, the Rev. E. W. Ingram. The church is good, and partly Norman; and contains several ancient monuments. See Bewdley.

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