Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for LAWFORD (LITTLE)

LAWFORD (LITTLE), a township in Newbold-upon-Avon parish, Warwick; on the Northwestern railway, 2¾ miles W by N of Rugby. Real property, £1, 366. Pop., 64. Houses, 6. The manor belonged to the Allesleys; passed to the Boughtons; was the scene of the poisoning of Sir Theodosius Boughton in 1780; and went by sale, in 1793, to the Caldecotts. The mansion on it is Holbrooke Grange, and superseded a previous mansion of the Boughtons.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

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Feature Description: "a township"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Warwickshire AncC
Place names: LAWFORD     |     LAWFORD LITTLE     |     LITTLE LAWFORD
Place: Little Lawford

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