[7] Domesday Book's records of the great survey of much of England and parts of Wales, completed in 1086, mentions two estates in North Piddle, both of which were held for the abbey of Westminster by Urse d'Abetot.

[2] Through the ages North Piddle manor was connected to many notable and colourful figures, including the Dukes of Norfolk.

Thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk, was banished from England and died of the "pestilence" (bubonic plague) in Venice in 1399.

His son and heir Thomas de Mowbray, 4th Earl of Norfolk was beheaded in 1405, and the manor was taken into family ownership and granted for life to Edward Beauchamp.

[3]The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868) says: NORTH PIDDLE, a parish in the upper division of the hundred of Pershore, county Worcester, 7 miles E. of Worcester, its post town, 5 N. by E. of Pershore, and 3 from Spetchley railway station.

[2][5] On 17 December 1896 there was an earthquake in the region that "exceeded in violence any previous instance of seismic energy there within the present century."

The earthquake was preceded by a loud roar "as of thunder" or "a rushing mighty wind", and residents whose windows were facing north saw a "great light", which some attributed to a large meteor.