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MILVERTON - Extract from National Gazetteer, 1868

"MILVERTON, a parish in the Kenilworth division of the hundred of Knightlow, county Warwick, 2 miles N.E. of Warwick, and 1 mile N. of Leamington, of which it maybe considered a suburb. It is a station on the Leamington and Coventry section of the London and North-Western railway. The village, which contains some villa residences is situated in a sheltered spot on the eastern bank of the river Avon, which at this point makes an extensive sweep. The land is fertile and highly cultivated. The parish includes the hamlet of Emscote, or Edmonscott, and the goods station belonging to the London and North-Western railway for the towns of Leamington and Warwick.

The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Worcester, value £58. The church, dedicated to St. James, is a small ancient stone edifice, with wooden belfry containing three bells. There is also a district church at New Milverton, the living of which is a curacy; also Milverton Chapel, at Milverton Hill, which is proprietary; this latter is a spacious Doric structure, with a tetrastyle portico and circular bell-tower; it was erected in 1836, and can accommodate 1,800 persons. The charities produce £5 per annum, chiefly the endowment of Byre's school."

"EMSCOTE, (or EDMONSCOTT), a hamlet in the parish of Milverton, county Warwick, 2 miles N.E. of Warwick.

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

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