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BARSTON, Warwickshire

"BARSTON, a parish in the Solihull division of the hundred of Hemlingford, in the county of Warwick, 8 miles to the W. of Coventry. Knowle is its post town. The living is a perpetual curacy*, value £180, attached to the rectory of Berkeswell, in the diocese of Worcester. The church is dedicated to St. Swithin. The parochial charities amount to £8 a year. Barston Park is the principal residence."

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

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