Nafford / Nadford

There is an entry for Nafford [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SO9441/nafford/] [accessed 2 October 2014]; it reports a priest in it but does not mention a church, though there probably was one here. Noake (1848) notes the growth of Birlingham St. James' "by the fall of her mother church, Nafford, grown to parochial greatness, comprising the inhabitants of Nafford and Birlingham". Miller (1890) does not mention a church in his entry for Birlingham; instead he has the Church of St. James under his entry for Nafford: "The Church of St. James' was a chapelry of Nafford; but when the Church at Nafford fell down this church became the parish church"; no font is mentioned in it. The Victoria County History (Worcester, vol. 4, 1924) entry for Birlingham notes: "There was a priest at Nafford in 1086, [...] and the church at Nafford was in the 13th century the parish church, that at Birlingham being a chapel dependent on it. [...] This is still the case, though Nafford Church (St. James) was in ruins when Habington wrote [NB: A Survey of Worcestershire (Oxford, 1893-1899)], [...] and the exact site has long been a matter of conjecture only."