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276 WOLSTO~. 'VARWICKSHIRE. [ KELLY's Hanson Sarah (~Irs. ), farmer Walton George, farmer ' Williams James, gardener to R. J. Hil'OIIJS Annie (Miss), dress maker Watts George, gamekeeper to R. J. Beech esq Hirons Thomas, carpenter & joine.r & Beech esq Working Men's Club (Daniel Liggins, poultry house builder Warwickshire YeDmanry Cavalry (B hon. sec) John.son William, woodman to R. J. Squadl"'OO., Hon. Major R. J. Beech BRETFORD. Beooh esq in command ; Ca.pj;. The Hon. Dudley Boors Fred, Queen's Head P.H Rankin Andrew, farmer Leigh, seoond in command ; W. J udd Geol'lge, grazier Reev!liS John, tailor Plridm.ore, qururtermaste<r; Sergt. Warner Frederick J. shopkeeper Turner John, market gardener Major Chairles Meates, &ill instrctr) Wilkins J obn, horse breaker & farmer WOLVERTON (or Wolverington), in Domesday r785-I82r; the handsome oak chancel screen, found in a "Vlvarditone," is a parish s! miles west-south-west from stable loft, has been replaced in its original position by Warwick, about the same distance north-east from Strat- the Rev. \Villiam Mason, late curate in charge: there are ford-upon-Avon and r~ south from Claverdon station on roo sittings. The register dates from the year r68o. the Stratford line of the Great Western railway, in the The living is a rectory, average tithe rent-charge £sg, South-Western division of the county, Snitterfield divi- gross yearly value £2rg, including 200 acres of glebe, sion of Barlichway hundred, Stratford and Snitterfield with residence, in the gift of B. Winthrop esq. and petty sessional division, Stratford union, Warwick county others, and held since r88g by Rev. Stephen Melton court district, rural deanery of Warwick and archdea- Campbell L.Th. of Hatfield Hall, Durham. Lady Treve conry and diocese of Worcester. The church of St. Iyan, of Wallington, .Northumberland, is lady of the Mary the Virgin was erected about 1208, before which manor. The principal landowners are Lady Trevelyan, time the vicar of Claverdon received the tithes; but this B. Winthrop esq. and the rector. The soil is a gravelly structure was superseded by another, or greatly enlarged, loam; subsoil, gravel. The chief crops are wheat, beans, in the reign of Edward II. and dedicated by Waiter de oats and barley. The area is I,II2 acres; rateable value. Maidstone, Bishop of Worcester; it was restored £895; the population in r8gr was r5r. in 186g, and is a building of stone in the Parish Clerk, Thomas Woodfield. Early English and Decorated styles, consisting of chancel, Letters through Stratford-upon-Avon arrive at 9 a.m. nave, south porch, and western turret, containing 2 bells, one witlaout inscription and the other with the date Snitterfield is the nearest money order & telegraph off 1771; the chancel has an Easter sepulchre on the north Wall Box, cle~red at +45 p.m side, and beneath the south-east window is a rude sedile This place is included in Norton Lindsey & Wolverton bench and piscina ; the font is an octagonal basin with a united school board district quartrefoiled circle on each face, resting on a similarly Board School (mixed), situated midway between Norton shaped shaft and base; the windows retain some ancient Lindsey & Wolverton & in the latter parish, & built in 14th century glass: and there are monuments to the r876, for 65 children; average attendance, 55; William family of Stanton, 1664-1715 ; and to the Roberts family, .Norman Smith, master; Mrs. Smith, mistress Ca.mpbell Rev. Stephen Melton L. Th. Canning .Arthur, farmer, Church fa.rm Gibbs Thoma.s Brooke.i,Old Red Horse The Rectory Pearson Thomas, farmer, Glebe farm inn, & f=eT Arm.strong Wm. farmer, 1Ua-con farm WOLVEY, in Domesday "Vlveia," is a. village and Smith esq. LL.D. alternately, and held since 1876 by the parish, bordering on Leicestershire, on the road from Rev. Burford Waring Gibsone M.A. of Trinity College, Hinckley to Cov-entry, 5! miles south-east from Nuneaton, Cambridge, and Fellow of King's College, London. The 4 south from Hinckley, 9 from Coventry or Lutterworth, whole of the, land representing the· great tithe is owned 10 from Rugby, and 3 north-easll from Shilton station, on by Lewis Vivian Layd esq. the Trent V alley ·section of the London and North W e~ern Here is a Baptist chapel : and the domestic chapel at railway, in the North-Eastern division of the county, tached to Wolvey Hall -is open to the public. Several and Kirby division of Knightlow hundred, Coventry petty provident friendly societies are maintained in this village, aessional division, Hinckley union and county court dis- one of which has a capital of £1,365, and another of £713· trict, rural deanery of Monks Kirby, archdeaconry of There is a charity of £28 a year, left about the beginning Ooventry and diocese of Worcester. It is supposed to of the present century by John Foster esq. of Leicester have derived its· name from the Saxon, '' Ulf" or "Wolf" Grange, and others, for educational purposes; the re- . and the Celtic "Ea," water, for the river Anker flows maining charities for the relief of the poor do not average through it, and once formed at this point a small fen or £ro a year. The inhabitants are chiefly employed in lake; it may claim on several grounds< to be regarded as agriculture. On Wolvey Heath, according to Holinshed one of the most central parishes in England, since it lies and Speed, Edward IV. was surprised in 1470 by Richard, .on the chief water shed, within half a mile of the point Earl of Warwick, the "King Maker," and conveyed to where the two great Roman roads, Watling Street and Middleham Castle, in Yorkshire, whence he soon escaped; the Fosse Way, cross each other, almost midway between this incident forms part of Shakespeare's Henry VI. There London and Chester, and is nearly the centre of gravity was formerly a hermitage on Wolvey Heath: and in the of the map of England, ~gardecl as a uniform plane. This r8th year of Richard II. (1394-5) William de Scregham district belongs to the Warwickshire table-land, and there was appointed by Giles, brother of William Lord Astley, being no higher ground eastward for many miles, and to the ancient hermitage, "there to live an hermitical most of the soil sandy, the climate is bracing and healthy, life in the service of God, and to pray for the souls of the owing to cooling winds and free drainage. The riTer said Giles, his ancestors, and all the founders and bene· Anker, mentioned by the poet Michael Drayton, rises on factoN of the monastery of Coombe" ; this hermitage, the upland here, and passing on through Nuneaton and by which, as Dugdale relates, existed before 1395, was ·situated Athert~tone and Polesworth to T'arnworth, there joins• the roo yards west of the road leading from Nuneaton to Tame, and eventually fall!! into the Trent. The church of Cloudesley Bush ; some distance southward is a circle of St. John the Baptist, originally Norman, is a building of raised ground, where, about 1555 according to Dugdale, Attleboro' sandst{)ne, chiefly in the Decorated style, and 1 Lady Dorothy Smyth was burnt a.t the s£ake for the consists of chancel, nave, aisles, south porch of Norman murder of her husband, Sir Waiter Srnyth, at Shirford. date, and a lofty embattled western tower of the late rsth Wolvey Hall, built by repute in 1676, in place of an century, containing a clock and 3 bells, g:ven by the earlier mansion destroyed during the Civil war, is the Astleys, of Wolvey Hall, and others at the Restoration of property and residence of H. F. :f. OJape-Arnold esq. Charles II. in r66o; the south aisle retains the remains M. A. · it contains a handsome oak stairca.se with the date of a chantry founded in 1344 by Alice Lady Astley, and 1677, 'and a window, filled with fragments of stained glas~ in th~ north aisle is a monument, with recumbent effigies from the old ball, including shields of arms and dates of of freestone, to Sir Thomas de Wolvey and his wife, circ. the earlier period. The Hall has been repaired and en I300, and one of alabaster with effigies to Thomas Astley larged by the present owner, who also in r8go-r built a and his wife, r6o3; a reversionary endowment wai left by private Catholic church communicating with the house. the Rev. J. W. Arnold D. D. for the repair of these tombs: and dedicated to our Lady of Ransom and St. Thomas of the chancel was restored in r8Si3, at the expense of the Canterbury; it is in the Early Gothic style, from designs late Lord Overstone, lay impropriator: there are 500 by Messrs. Goodacre, architects, of Leicester, and affords sittings: the churchyard occupies a. knoll, on the south about go sittings: it is registered as a place of publiJ bank of the .Anker, and affords a pleasant view down the worship, and duly licensed for marria£res: in the hou<e valley. The re~ister of baptisms and marriages dates are a number of family portraits by Chalon, Engellwrdt, from the year 1653; burials, 165o. The living is a vicar- Drummond, Wulfartz, Sir Francis Grant P.R.A. and J. R. age, average tithe rent-cha.rge £IO, net yearly value £2oo, Herbert R..A. water-colour drawings by David Cox, Joseph including roo acre~ of gle'be, with residence, built in Nash, David Robrrts &c. and miniatures by Cosway. Knap r86r-2, iLl the fi:tfll of the Biobop of Worcester and J.