KINETON HUNDRED BRAILES DIVISION. 1013 PILLERTON PRIORS PARISH. PILLERTON PRIORS, Or OVER PILLERTON, Is a Small Village and Parish, 4 Miles S.W
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KINETON HUNDRED BRAILES DIVISION. 1013 PILLERTON PRIORS PARISH. PILLERTON PRIORS, or OVER PILLERTON, is a small village and parish, 4 miles S.W. by W. from Kineton, in the Southern Division of the County, Shipston-on-Stour Union and County Comt District, and the same Ecclesiastical divisions as Pillerton Hersey, containing 1,460a. 21'. 29p. of land, and in 1371 had 224 inhabitants. Gross estimated rental, £2,316 14s. rateable value, £2,06913s. 4d. This place was, at the Conquest, called Pillerton Parva, and was the property of the Earl of Chester. The manor having been given to a monastery in Normandy, came to the Crown at the dissolution, and was sold to Geoffrey Sackerley, Esq., after which it descended through the families of Holt, Cliff, Lee, and Ward, to William Compton, Esq., who sold it to the Earl of Rutland. The Rev. H. Mills is lord of the manor and prin cipallandowner. The CHURCH, dedicated to St. Mary Magdalen, was destroyed by fire in 1666, of which there are on remains. The Chmchyard is still used as a place of interment, and contains several ancient tombs to the Gardner family. The living, a Curacy, is annexed to the living of Pillerton Hersey. The Wesleyans have a neat chapel here, erected in 1861. CHARITIES. Poor's lrioney. It is stated by the returns of 1786, that there was a sum of £30, belonging to the poor of this parish, then in the family of the late Thomas Gardner. In the year 1809, William Gardner gave a bond for the payment of this money, with interest at :five per cent.; but after two years payment he became embarrassed. DIRECTORY. John Allibone, carpenter; David Reading, car -.penter, Upper Pillerton. The Fanners are ·William Buswell Blox ham, Ewe Hill Farm; John Burrows, lrlillfield Farm; Mrs. Elizabeth Gardner, Sand Pits Farm; Rd. Jaques, Cadbold Farm; and Frederick Mumford, Stamford Hall Farm. , STRETTON-ON-FOSS PARISH. STRETTON-ON-FOSS is a parish and village, forming a de tached portion of the Brailes Division of the Kineton Hundred, situated in the County of Gloucester, 3 miles 'V.S.W. from Shipston on-Stour, and in the Southern Division of the County, Shipston-on- 3 R.