ALVESTON - Extract from National Gazetteer, 1868

"ALVESTON, (or Aulston), a parish in the Snitterfield division of the hundred of Barlichway, in the county of Warwick, 2 miles to the N.E. of Stratford. It lies in a pleasant country on the river Avon, at the foot of the Welcombe hills. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Worcester, value £220, in the patronage of the rector of Hampton-Lucy. The church, which is dedicated to St. James, contains monuments of the Lucys. The parish charities amount to £46. Alveston House is the principal residence.

"TIDDINGTON, a village in the parish of Alveston, county Warwick, 1 mile N.E. of Stratford-on-Avon."

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]