Place:Quatt Malvern, Shropshire, England

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Quatt is a small village and civil parish in Shropshire, England located in the Severn Valley. The civil parish, formally known as Quatt Malvern, had a population of 219 according to the 2001 UK census, reducing to 200 at the 2011 census.

It lies on the A442 south of Bridgnorth. Samuel Gilbert (died 1692?), writer on horticulture, was rector here in the latter part of the 17th century.

A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Quatt Malvern or Quatt from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:

"QUATT, a parish in Bridgnorth [registration] district, Salop [Shropshire]]; adjacent to the river Severn, 1¾ mile N E by N of Hampton-Lode [railway] station, and 4 S S E of Bridgnorth. It consists of the townships of [Quatt] Jervis and [Quatt] Malvern; and it has a post-office under Bridgnorth. Acres: 2,674. Real property: £4,113. Population in 1861: 485. Houses: 69. The manor, with Dudmaston Hall, belongs to the Rev. F. H. Wolryche Whitmore, who is the chief landowner. There are traces of a Roman camp. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lichfield, Value: £430. Patrons: the Trustees of the late W. W. Whitmore, Esq. The church was rebuilt in 1763; has a tower; and contains an ancient font, and monuments of the Wolryches. There is a parochial school."

A Vision of Britain through Time also states that Quatt Malvern absorbed its neighbouring township of Quatt Jarvis in 1934 and from then on the name of the civil parish has been Quatt.

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