Rock, Worcestershire

Rock, Worcestershire

Rock is a village in Worcestershire, which lies south-west of Bewdley. It is in the Wyre Forest District Council.

It is reputed that at one time Sir Rowland Hill lived at Swathes in the hamlet of Buckridge in the parish of Rock.Fact|date=February 2007

The church houses has a number of Herefordshire School Romanesque carvings as described by Malcolm Thurlby in his book The Herefordshire School of Romanesque Sculpture.


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