WOOTTON-WAWEN - Extract from National Gazetteer, 1868

"WOOTTON-WAWEN, a parish in the hundred of Barlichway, county Warwick, 8 miles N.W. of Stratford-on-Avon, and 6 from Knowles station on the Great Western railway. It is situated on the river Alne and the Birmingham canal, and includes the chapelry and market town of Henley-in-Arden."

"APSLEY, (or Aspley) a hamlet joined with the hamlet of Fordhall, in the chapelry of Ullenhall, parish of Wootton-Wawen, in the hundred of Barlichway, in the county of Warwick, 5 miles to the N.W. of Henley-in-Arden.

"BOTLEY, a hamlet in the chapelry of Ullenhall, and parish of Wootton-Wawen, hundred of Barlichway, in the county of Warwick, 1 mile from Henley-in-Arden."

"EDSTONE, a hamlet in the parish of Wootton-Wawen, county Warwick, 3 miles S.E. of Henley-in-Arden. The river Alne passes through the hamlet. Somerville, the poet, was born here."

"FORDHALL, a hamlet united to Apsley, in the chapelry of Ullenhall and parish of Wootton-Wawen, county Warwick, 3 miles N.W. of Henley-in-Arden."

"HENLEY, a division of the hundred of Barlichway, county Warwick, contains the town of Henley-in-Arden, and the parishes of Beaudesert, Claverdon, Preston Baggott, Rowington, and Wootton Wawen, comprising about 19,000 acres."

"ULLENHALL, a chapelry in the parish of Wootton-Wawen, Henley division of Barlichway hundred, county Warwick, 2 miles N.W. of Henley in-Arden, its post town, and 12 from Birmingham. It includes the hamlets of Botley and Apsley. The living is a curacy annexed to the vicarage of Wootton-Wawen, in the diocese of Worcester. The church is dedicated to St. Mary. The parochial charities produce about £50 per annum, of which £2 go to a school."

"WHITLEY, a hamlet in the parish of Wootton-Wawen, county Warwick, 1 mile from Henley-in-Arden, and 9 miles W. of Warwick, near the river Alne and the Birmingham canal."

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