BICKENHILL - Extract from National Gazetteer, 1868

"BICKENHILL, (or Church Bicknell), a parish in the Solihull division of the hundred of Hemlingford, in the county of Warwick, 7½ miles to the S.E. of Birmingham, its post town. The London and North-Western railway, and the Warwick and Birmingham canal, pass through the parish. The former has a station at Hampton, about 2 miles distant from the village of Church Bicknell, and another in the hamlet of Marston Green, about 2½ miles from the church, which is situated on rising ground a quarter of a mile on the left-hand side of the coach road from Coventry to Birmingham.

The parish contains the quarters of Linden End, Marston Green, Church Bicknell, and Middle Bicknell. The living is a vicarage* in the diocese of Worcester, of the value of £322, with 21 acres of glebe land, in the patronage of the Earl of Aylesford. The church, dedicated to St. Peter, is a fine old structure, formerly belonging to the convent of Mergate, in Berkshire. The vicarial tithes have been commuted for £326, and the impropriator's for £242. The Independent chapel at Marston Green has been recently purchased, and licensed for the performance of Divine service according to the order of the Church of England. There are National and infant schools.

"LYNDON, a quarter in the parish of Bickenhill, county Warwick, 4 miles S. of Coleshill."

"MARSTON, a quarter in the parish of Bickenhill, county Warwick, 3 miles S.W. of Coleshill. It is situated on the banks of the river Cole."

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