Salford Priors, Warwickshire
The village is about six miles south west of Alcester, and is as pretty as any chocolate
box or jig-
The land of the parish originally belonged to the Abbot of Kenilworth and is now divided by the busy A439 Evesham to Stratford road. The area has many fruit farms and market gardens.
The name 'Salford' comes from 'Saltford'. 'The Oxford Dictionary of Place Names'
(Ekwall) says that the name could refer to the place where salt was carried over
the river (presumably a salt-
The Church is Norman and is mentioned in the Doomsday book, it is dedicated to St Matthew. The church is set back in farm land and is kept open and has a convenient car park. We visited on 17 June 2006 when Eric took this photograph., It is well cared for and obviously well used. The parish coveres the villages of Dunnington, Bevington, Cock Bevington and Abbot's Salford, all manors in their own right.
We have found that our earliest PRATTs came from the area possibly from Dunnington
Our line is headed by John [5630] and Mary PRATT who had children baptised here from 1685. Several generations later Edward PRATT and Ann nee TURBERVILLE had George and Mary baptised in 1813 and 1814 when they were given as from Dunnington Heath and when Phoebe daughter of Joseph and Ann was baptised in 1850 she was given as from Dunnington. Edward was a brother of John (1771) who married Elizabeth KIBLER on our direct line.This John was the last on our direct line to be born here as he settled in Warwick.
Just inside the door on the left as you face the altar in the North Wall is a stained glass window dedicated “In loving memory of John Humphrey PRATT born 1823 died 1890. erected March 28th 1891 by his 2 sons John Humphrey and Erasumus Crake.”
This is a family of cloth merchants and has been traced back to Thomas PRATT and Elizabeth Harvey CRAKE who had their children baptised in Lyneham, Oxfordshire. They traded in Philadelphia, so the Good Samaritan was an appropriate subject for their memorial window. No connection has as yet been established between this family and our line
Photographs by E McMullin 17 June 2006 and 23 Mar 2007
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