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The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868

"BULKINGTON, a parish in the Kirby division of the hundred of Knightlow, in the county of Warwick, 4 miles to the S. of Nuneaton, its post town, and 6 from Coventry by road, or 14 by rail. It is a station on the Trent Valley branch of the London and North-Western railway. The parish includes the hamlets of Barnacle, Bramcott, Marston-Jabbett, Ryton, Weston, and Wolvershill, and is crossed by the Coventry canal. Ribbon weaving is carried on here to a considerable extent.

There are freestone quarries in the vicinity. The living is a vicarage* in the diocese of Lichfield, of the value of £253, in the patronage of the lord chancellor. The church is dedicated to St. James. It contains a font of Numidian marble, carved by Richard Hayward out of an ancient column brought from Rome, and several other monuments by the same sculptor. The Independents have a chapel here. There are several charities for the poor, amounting annually to about £70."

"BARNACLE, a township in the parish of Bulkington, and hundred of Knightlow, in the county of Warwick, 5 miles from Coventry. The Trent Valley railway runs near it. The chief residences are Barnacle Hall and Barnacle Park."

"BRAMCOTT, a hamlet in the parish of Bulkington, partly also in the parish of Wolvey, in the hundred of Knightlow, in the county of Warwick, 4 miles to the S.E. of Nuneaton."

"MARSTON-JABBETT, a hamlet in the parish of Bulkington, county Warwick, 2 miles S.E. of Nuneaton. It is situated on the Ashby-de-la-Zouch canal."

"RYTON, a hamlet in the parish of Bulkington, county Warwick, 4 miles S.E. of Nuneaton."

"WESTON-IN-ARDEN, a hamlet in the parish of Bulkington, county Warwick, 3 miles S.E. of Nuneaton, near the Coventry canal."

"WOLVERSHILL, a hamlet in the parish of Bulkington, county Warwick, 4 miles S.E. of Nuneaton."

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