KINGSBURY - Extract from National Gazetteer, 1868

"KINGSBURY, a parish in the Tamworth division of the hundred of Hemlingford, county Warwick, 5½ miles S. of Tamworth, 5 N.E. of Coleshill, and halt a mile from the Kingsbury station on the Midland, Birmingham, and Derby Junction line of railway. Atherstone is its post town. The parish is considerable, and contains the village of Hurley, also the hamlets of Dosthill, Holloughton, Hurley, Foulend, Drakenage, Stateley, Heanley, Whateley Cliff, Bodymoor Heath, &c.

It is situated on the river Thame, and has been held by the Bracebridges of Atherstone, through Turchill de Warwick, since 851. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Worcester, value £118. The church, dedicated to SS. Peter and Paul, is an ancient stone edifice with a square embattled tower containing five bells. The church was thoroughly repaired in 1835. The charities produce about £54 per annum, of which- £25 goes to Coton's school. The Wesleyan Methodists have places of worship at Hurley and Bodymoor Heath."

"CLIFF, a hamlet in the county of Warwick, 3 miles S. of Tamworth. It is pleasantly situated near the river Tame and the Trent Valley railway."

"DOSTHILL, a hamlet in the parishes of Tamworth and Kingsbury, in the county of Warwick, 3 miles S. of Tamworth. In this hamlet is a chapel-of-ease to the vicarage of Kingsbury."

"HURLEY, a hamlet in the parish of Kingsbury, county Warwick, 4 miles S.W. of Atherstone."

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