The lower division consisted of the Manors of Abberley; Astley; Alton; Bayton; Bewdley; Doddenham; Dowles; Glasshampton; Mamble; Ribbesford; Great Witley; Rochford; Shelsley Beauchamp; Rock; Shrawley and Stockton.
Donisthorpe records the species as having occurred as far north as Bewdley in Worcestershire.
Bewdley | Bewdley (UK Parliament constituency) | Edward Baldwin, 4th Earl Baldwin of Bewdley | Oliver Baldwin, 2nd Earl Baldwin of Bewdley | Bewdley railway station |
From the Welsh Gate of Bewdley to Newnham Bridge, it was managed by the Bewdley Trust established in 1753.
Bewdley was disused for only four years before preservationists from the new SVR Company bought the land, track and buildings in 1974 enabling the SVR to extend from Bridgnorth–Hampton Loade to Highley and eventually Bewdley that same year.
Between 1798 and 1800, Lyttelton represented Granard in the Irish House of Commons He succeeded his father as Member of Parliament for Bewdley in 1790 and to his title and his estates in Hagley, Halesowen, and Frankley in 1808.
Baldwin should not be confused with the wife of British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, who was from 1937 known as Countess Baldwin of Bewdley (and informally as Lady Baldwin).
Other members of the family include Sir Nicholas Lechmere, a Baron of the Exchequer during the reign of King William III and Member of Parliament for Bewdley, and his grandson Nicholas Lechmere, 1st Baron Lechmere, Solicitor-General, Attorney-General and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster.
Thomas Lyttelton, 2nd Baron Lyttelton (1744–1779), British MP for Bewdley, 1768 and profligate, dubbed "the wicked Lord Lyttelton" and "bad Lord Lyttelton"
It broke off the main line north of Bewdley and crossed the River Severn at Dowles Bridge, the piers of which still remain.