BURTON-HASTINGS - Extract from National Gazetteer, 1868

"BURTON-HASTINGS, a parish in the Kirby division of the hundred of Knightlow, in the county of Warwick, 4 miles to the S.E. of Nuneaton, its post town. It is situated on the borders of Leicestershire, close to the Trent Valley branch of the London and North-Western railway, which has a station at Bulkington, 1 mile to the N.E. of the village. The Ashby-de-la-Zouch canal passes near the village, and the parish is crossed by the Roman way, Watling Street.

It acquired the suffix of Hastings from William Lord Hastings, who held the manor in the reign of Edward IV., and from whom it passed, by marriage, to the Cotton family, the ancestors of Sir Thomas Cotton, the founder of the Cottonian Library in the British Museum. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Worcester, worth £87, in the patronage of W. Bucknill, Esq. The church is dedicated to St. Botolph. There are charitable bequests for the poor producing about £28 per annum."

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