It is found six miles south of Alcester, about the same distance from Evesham, very close to the Worcestershire border, and is within the parish of Salford Priors.

As well as the hotel the modest modern attractions of the village seem to be Abbot's Salford Lake, which is an excellent fishing spot, and a caravan park.

[1] By the reign of Charles I it had become, by marriage, a seat of the Roman Catholic Stanford family.

[3] It is now used as a country house hotel, and is classed as a Grade I listed building.

The nuns concerned were Benedictines who had been exiled from Cambrai in France by the French Revolution, and who were to build Stanbrook Abbey to move into in 1838.