CLAVERDON - Extract from National Gazetteer, 1868

"CLAVERDON, a parish in the hundred of Barlichway, in the county of Warwick, 6 miles W. of Warwick station, and 4 E. of Henley-in- Arden. It contains the township of Langley. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Worcester, value with the curacy of Norton-Lindsey annexed, £265, in the patronage of the archdeacon. The church, which is dedicated to St. Michael, has lately been altered. Here is a National school. In the reign of Henry VIII. certain lands were left by John Matthews for the use of the church, the rent of which in 1617 was 12 nobles, but now exceeds £100. The Birmingham and Stratford canal passes through the parish."

"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."

"LANGLEY, a hamlet in the parish of Claverdon, Henley division of the hundred of Barlichway, county Warwick, 4 miles S.E. of Henley-in-Arden. It is situated on the Alne."

"PINLEY, (or Pindley), a township in the parishes of Rowington and Claverdon, Henley division of the hundred of Barlichway, county Warwick, 4 miles E. of Henley-in-Arden, and 4 W. of Warwick. It is situated near Pinley Green, and adjoins the village of Whitley. At a farmhouse in the neighbourhood are the ruins of a Benedictine nunnery, founded by R. de Pilardinton, in the reign of Henry I. Its revenue at the Dissolution was valued at £27 148. 7d.

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