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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 The mansion on it is Holbrooke Grange, and superseded a previous mansion of the Boughtons.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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