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• .296 WAPPENBURY. WARWICKSHIRE. rKELLY'S.. WAPPENBUBY, in Domesday '' Wapeberie," is a property and residence of Geurge Darlinson esq. Lord parish and small village, {)n thl;l river Learn, and ad Cli:fford, who is lord of the manor, and George Darlinsota joining the high road from Leamington to Rugby, 98 esq are the chief landowners. The soil is loamy; sub miles by road and 108 by rail from London, 5 east wil, gravel and marl. The chief crops are wheat, barley north-east from Leamington, and 3 west-north-west and beans. The Wappenbury Hall esta.te is all in from Marton railway station on the Rugby, Marton and pasture. The area of Wappenbury township is 948 acres Leamington branch of the London and North Western of land and 5 of water; rateable value, £1,217; th& railway, in the South-Eastern division of the county, population in 19II was 62. Southam division of the hundred of Knightlow, petty Parish Clerk, James Lee. sessional division of Kenilworth, union and county court district of Warwick, rural deanery of Leamington, arch Pillar Letter Box at Wappenbury, cleared at 12.35 & 5·5S deaconry of Coventry and diocese of Worcester. The p.m. ; sundays, 9· ro a.m church of St. John the Baptist, formerly an appPndage to the monastery of Monks Kirby and Sulby, in North- EA.THORPE, a township, is r mile south-east. amptonshire, is a building of stone, in the Early ~eparated from Wappenbury by the Learn. Eathorp~ English style, consisting of chancel, nave, south porch, Hall, in a park of about 6o acres, is a brick mansion, and a western tower C{)ntaining 3 bells: the whole of the property of the Ear] of Clonmel1, and occupied by the church, except the tower, was rebuilt in r886, at 8 Major Archibald William Hicks-Beach. Eathorpe Park~ cost of £ 1,726, chiefty defrayed by the family of the the propfrty and residence of Mrs. Sumner, is pretti1y late Col. the Hon. c. Grantham Scott, of Eathorpe situated on an eminence, commanding an excellent view Hall. The register of baptisms and burials dates from of the surrounding country. The Earl of Clonmell is the year 1753; marriages, 1754, but is scanty and the chief landowner. The area is 526 acres of land and deficient. The living is a vicarage (united to West on- 5 of water; rateable value, £r, 162; the population in under-Wetherley in rBgr), joint net yearly value £II7, rgor was I73· hcluding 37 acres of glebe here, and residence, in the Post Office, Eathorpe. William Watts, sub-postmaster. gift of the Bishop of Worcester, and held since 1892 by Letters arrive Jrom Leamington Spa at 7·45 a.m. &:; the Rev. Edward Lewis Wise M.A. of St Alban Hall, 1.45 p.m.; d"1spa t c h e d a t 12.20 & 5.40 p.m.; sund ay Oxford, who resides at The Grange, Cubbington. The delivery 8 a.m. ; dispatched 9 a.m. Marton, 1 mile- Cath{)liC church of St. Anne is a Gothic structure of distant is the nearest monev order & telegraph office brick, erected in 1849 on the southern escarpment of Th h"ld' f th" "11 t.t d th h 1 t M "t · b L d e c 1 ren o IS VI age a en e se no s a ar~ th e oId Ro man camp ; th e si e was given v or t H · h & p · th Clifford ; a portion of the old chapel has been co~verted j on, unnmg am rince orpe into a residence for the priest. Wappenbury Hall is the Carriers pass through to & from Leamington,tues.& fri WAPPENBURY. Reeve Philip Henry, The Poplars Hands George, blacksmith Darlinson George, Wappenbury hall Riley Christopher, The Mill house Hoggins John, thatcher Holden Rev. Patrick (Catholic) Sumner Mrs. Eathorpe park Lee James, thrashing machim owne10 Coles William, farmer & overseer, Reeve Philip Henry, miller (steam &. Learn Bank farm COMMERCIAL. water), corn factor & merchant, Darlinson Geo. farmer & landowner, Anderson Wilham :::... farmer,Hockley hay & straw dealer, coal merchant Wappenbury hall (postal address, Marton, .Rugby) & oil cake merchant, Eathorpe miH Harrod Chas. Herbt. frmr. Home frm Braithwaite James, butcher & oversr Rouse William, Plough inn Waiters William, farmer Cross John, gardener to Mrs. Sumner Tranter Henry, gardener to Mnjor- EATHORPE. Eathorpe & 1v1arton Co-operative A. W. Hicks-Beach Hicks-Beach Major Archibald Wm. Stores Limited (central) (Charles Eathorpe hall Dyer, manager) WARD END with LITTLE :BROMWICH are now included within the limits of the city of Birmingham, which see. WARMINGTON, in Domesday "Warmintone,'' is a I Hill, 23 Oct. 1642. The register dates from the year parish and village, extending on the s<mth-west of the I636. The living is a rectory, net yearly value £370. parish to the Oxfordshire border, and partly on either including r8g acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift side of the Warwick and Banbury road, 5~ miles north of Hulme"s trustees, in connection with Brasenose Col· west from Banbury, 5 south-east from Kineton, 4 south lege, Oxford, and held since 1906 by the Rev. Rohert from Fenny Compton station on the Great Western and Peel Willock M . .A.. of that college, and rural dean of East and West Junction railways, and 14 south-east Dassett .\'Iagna. Here are Wesleyan Methodist and: from Warwic]{, in the South-Eastern division of the Primitive Methodist chapels. A charity of 6s. is distri county, Kineton hundred, Burton Dassett and Kineton buted in twelve twopenny loaves to the poor at Easter.. petty sessional division, Banbury union and county Christmas and Whitsuntide. Mr. H. F. Bennett is lord. court district, rural deanery of Dassett Magna, arch of the manor. The principal landowners are William deaconry of Coventry and diocese of Worcester. The Hu~h Holbech esq. of Farnborough Hall, Banbury; church of St. Michael (or St. Nicholas) is a building of John Edward Taylor Loveday esq. of Williamscote.. stone, chiefly in the Decorated style of the 14th cen Bauhury; Mrs. Bolton King, of ro Upper Berkeley street. tury, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, north and south London W, and W. Holloway esq. of 24 Lincoln's Inrr porches, and a low western tower containing 3 bells and Fields, London W C. The soil is very rich red land; a clock, given by subscription in 1889: the nave has subsoil, clay. The crops are wheat, barley, oats and' arcades of four arches on each side, three of which are beans, but the land is principally in pasture. The area Transition Norman, the remaining one on each side being is r,Sog acres; rateable value, £2,450; the population Decorated: the north aisle is Early Decorated : the in 1901 was 269. south aisle somewhat later: the east window and <Jne Arlescote is a hamlet of the parish, r mile north other are memorials to the Harrison family, and there west, containing a few houses. is a third to the late rector : attaehed to the north side of the ehancel is a building of the 14th century, Sexton, Henry Hawkes. consisting of two rooms, {)ne over the other, probably Post Office. Hugh A. Coles, sub-postmaster. Letters a domus inclusi, or hermit's dwelling; the lower room arrive from Banbury at 7·45 a.m. & 3 p.m. ; dis retains an altar and piscina, and in the upper room is patched at 10.30 a.m. & 5· 10 p.m. week days only. a latrine: the church stands on high ground, command Avon Dassett is the nearest money order & telegrapl:t" ing a beautiful and extensive, view of the surrounding office country and adjoining the main road, 6oo feet above Public Elementary School, built in 1879, at a cost ot the sea, and is approached by flights of stone steps at £goo, for 65 children; average attendance, 51; James each entrance through the burial-ground: the chancel T. Sharples, master was restored in 1867, the new burial-ground consecrated Carriers to Banbury.-Richard Hawtin, mon. thurs. k in r86g, and the restoration of the church completed in sat 1871 : there are 300 sittings : in the churchyard is a stone to one of the Royalists killed at the battle of Edge Police Station, Arthur Edward White, constable WARMINGTON. COMl\IERC'IAL. Coles Brothers, grocers Ancient Order of Foresters (Court Elkington Edward, farmer PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Village Green, No. 2,134; Richard Ford Arthur, Plough P.H Bennett H. Freeman, Manor house Miles. sec) Gib bs Charles, farmer Stranks Miss Gough George, mason Batchelor William Henrv,• butcher Willock Rev. Robert Peel M.A. Bawcutt Frank, farmer Gregory Thomas, farmer (rector & rural dean), Rectory Coggins George, farmer Gulliver Hubert, Hare & Houn<bP.H .