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"BICKENHILL, (or Church Bicknell), a parish in the Solihull division of the hundred of Hemlingford, in the county of Warwick, 72 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 22 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."
[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of
Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]
The transcription of the section for Bickenhill from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.
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