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The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868
The church, dedicated to St. Nicholas, is in the early English style, with a fine Norman arch at the entrance to the chancel, which is unfinished. This village was the birth-place (1715) of Richard Iago, a poet once of note, whose father held the rectory. The principal residence is Beaudesert House, a mansion occupying the site of the old castle. From Beaudesert Mount there is a fine prospect over a beautiful undulating country, extending 20 miles, from Edge Hills to Malvern."
"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."
[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]