BISHOP'S TACHBROOK - Extract from National Gazetteer, 1868

"BISHOP'S TACHBROOK, a parish in the Warwick division of the hundred of Kington, partly also in the hundred of Knightlow, in the county of Warwick, 3 miles to the S.E. of Warwick. Leamington is its post town. It is situated on a branch of the river Avon, and contains the hamlet of Mallory Tachbrook. The living is a vicarage* in the diocese of Worcester, value £293, in the patronage of the Bishop of Lichfield. The church is dedicated to St. Chad. There is a free school, with an endowment of £40 per annum, and some other small charities."

"TACHBROOK-MALLORY, a hamlet in the parish of Bishop's Tachbrook, Kenilworth division of Knightlow hundred, county Warwick, 3½ miles S.E. of Warwick. It is situated on a branch of the river Avon, and is a meet for the Warwickshire hounds."

"THE ASPS, a village in the parish of Bishop's Tachbrook, hundreds of Kington and Knightlow, in the county of Warwick, 1 mile from Warwick.

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