Elmley Lovett in Worcestershire, England is a civil parish whose residents' homes are quite loosely clustered east of its Hartlebury Trading Estate, as well as in minor neighbourhood Cutnall Green to the near south-east.

Between 1908 and 1925 the rector was distinguished retired missionary and Japanese language expert the Rt Rev Philip Fyson.

[16] A full history of the ownership of the tenancy in chief and also of the lordship of the manor for Elmley Lovett can be traced.

It provides detailed best information as to the documentation and remnant status of the areas around the village church and includes the mediaeval remains.

The manor was ultimately sold by the Crown to Sir Robert Acton in 1543, who at that date was a Justice of the Peace and former High Sheriff of Worcestershire.

Elmley Lovett features in seventeenth century records, in particular illustrating the system of tax assessment, subsidy raising and empressment of men for military service.

[20] Both she and her husband were descendants of Sir Robert Townshend (judge and Chief Justice of the Marches of Wales and Chester).

The diary (1640-1663) of Henry Townshend of Elmsley Lovett is a key historic document of the seventeenth century.

It was commissioned by the Worcester Historical Society to be edited by American scholar John W Willis Bund, printed in 1920 by Mitchell Hughes and Clarke of London EC4.

[23] Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford, in 1640 advised the raising and equipping of a royal army to be sent to Scotland.

Elmley Lovett's constable, William Penn of Harborough, was summoned to raise the money and by warrant of 28 April 1640 wrote to each of the parishioners demanding that a parish payment of £7 10 shillings be delivered to him at his house on the 7th of May.

[26] In January 1642 a further demand for £10 8 shillings and three pence was imposed on Elmley Lovett, this time the assessments being on 52 people, including 3 widows.

[4] The Elmley Lovett Volunteers were a regiment of Worcestershire soldiers formed to fight against the Emperor Napoleon.

[32] A study of the labouring class in the period 1790-1841 concluded that Elmley Lovett was a relatively prosperous parish but that the overseers of the poor took a harsh attitude in the 1820s to possible claimants for relief.

[34] In June 1829 a major lawsuit took place between the rector of the parish, the Rev Lynes, as plaintiff (claimant) and a tithe-paying parishioner, Mr Lett.

The dispute concerned whether the tithes for colts, calves, pears, milk and wintered ewes were to be strictly rendered as provided by the terrier.

[36] The enclosure of land around Elmley Lovett is mapped and certified as accurate as at 29 January 1874 by surveyor Albert Buck of St Nicholas, Worcester.

[39] During the Second World War (1939–45), Elmley Lovett hosted the worship of the Royal Air Force personnel from RAF Hartlebury.

A brass memorial plaque was presented to St Michael's Church, as well as an RAF ensign, to honour the link.

200 metres (660 ft) south of the church are the remains of the walls of a half-timbered mansion, built in 1635 and demolished in 1890, which may have originally replaced the moated manor house.