Arley, Upper, a village and a parish in Staffordshire, In, the south-western projection of the county, on the river Severn, 4 miles NNW of Bewdley. The parish has a station on the Severn Valley branch of the G.W.R., and a post and telegraph office under Bewdley, which is the money order office. Population, 647. Millstones are quarried. Arley Castle was built in 1836, a portion of the old Elizabethan Hall being incorporated. It was the residence of the Lyttleton-Annesley family, and is now that of the Woodward family. There is an ancient camp. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield; value, £305. The church is ancient and is conspicuously situated; it was restored in 1884.