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BULKINGTON - Extract from National Gazetteer, 1868
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The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868
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]