HATTON - Extract from National Gazetteer, 1868

"HATTON, a parish in the Snitterfield division of the hundred of Barlichway, county Warwick, 2 miles N.W. of Warwick, and 6 from Kenilworth. It is a station on the Oxford and Birmingham section of the Great Western railway. The parish, which is situated on the Warwick and Birmingham canal, contains the hamlets of Hatton Green, Beausall, and Shrewley. It belonged to Hugh de Hatton, Earl of Warwick, who founded Wroxall Abbey, and endowed it with the church and part of the lands of this manor.

A county lunatic asylum has been recently erected here, capable of accommodating 300 patients, and occupies 40 acres of land, well laid out in pleasure grounds, &c. From Hatton Hill in this parish is a view over the country surrounding Warwick. The living is a perpetual curacy* in the diocese of Worcester, value £250. The church, dedicated to the Holy Trinity, is an ancient building, much altered by repairs. It contains some modern specimens of painted glass, and was internally embellished under the superintendence of the late Dr. Samuel Parr, who was incumbent from 1783 till his death in 1825."

"BEAUSALL, a hamlet in the parish of Hatton, and hundred of Barlichway, in the county of Warwick, 4 miles to the N.W. of Warwick."

"OLD FOLLY and OLD PARK, villages in the hamlet of Beausall, parish of Hatton, county Warwick, 3½ miles N.W. of Warwick."

"OLD PARK, a hamlet in the parish of Hatton, county Warwick, 4 miles N.W. of Warwick."

"SHREWLEY, a hamlet in the parish of Hatton, Snitterfield division of Barlichway hundred, county Warwick 4 miles N.W. of Warwick."

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