Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for BISHOPS-ITCHINGTON

BISHOPS-ITCHINGTON, a parish in Southam district, Warwick; on the river Itchin and on the Oxford and Rugby railway, 2 miles SSE of Harbury station, and 3¾ SW of Southam. It has a post office under Rugby. Acres, with Chapel-Ascote, 3,026. Real property, £4,586. Pop., 598. Houses, 131. The property is divided among a few. The living is a vicarage, united with the p. curacies of Chadshunt and Gaydon, in the diocese of Worcester. Value, £416.* Patron, the Bishop of Lichfield. The church is good; and there are an Independent chapel, a national school, and charities £22.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Bishops Itchington CP/AP       Southam RegD/PLU       Warwickshire AncC
Place: Bishops Itchington

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