Hanley Child is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Hanley,Ordnance Survey mapping in the Malvern Hills district, in the county of Worcestershire, England. Hanley-Child was formerly a chapelry in the parish of Eastham, in 1866 Hanley Child became a civil parish, on 1 April 1933 the parish was abolished and merged with Hanley William to form "Hanley". In 1931 the parish had a population of 119.
Hanley Child was in the upper division of Doddingtree Hundred.Worcestershire Family History Guidebook, Vanessa Morgan, 2011, p20 The History Press, Stroud, Gloucestershire.
The name Hanley Child derives from the Old English hēahlēah cild meaning 'high wood/clearing of the child'.
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