Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for WARTON, or Waverton

WARTON, or Waverton, a chapelry in Polesworth parish, Warwick; 1½ mile NE of Polesworth r. station. It was constituted in 1849; and its Post town is Polesworth, under Tamworth. Pop., 582. Houses, 141. The property is subdivided. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Worcester. Value, £122. Patron, the Vicar of Polesworth. There is a Baptist chapel.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Polesworth CP/AP       Warwickshire AncC
Place names: WARTON     |     WARTON OR WAVERTON     |     WAVERTON
Place: Warton

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