HILLMORTON - Extract from National Gazetteer, 1868

"HILLMORTON, a parish in the Rugby division of the hundred of Knightlow, county Warwick, 3 miles N.E. of Crick, and 2½ E. of Rugby, its post town and railway station on the London and North-Western line. The manor at the time of the Domesday Survey belonged to Sir Thomas de Ashley, by whom it was sold to the Veres of London. The village, which is very irregular, is situated partly on rising ground and partly on the rivulet running to Creek, which is separated from this parish by the ancient Watling Street.

The Oxford canal passes through the parish, and rises to a considerable elevation in its progress to Braunston, where it has three double locks. The parish is also intersected by the London and Birmingham railway and the road to Northampton. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Worcester, value £202. The church, dedicated to St. John the Baptist, is an ancient edifice with a square tower containing five bells. In the interior of the church are several monuments and effigies. The register dates from 1564. The Wesleyans have a place of worship. The parochial charities produce about £98 per annum, of which £16 go to a school, and the residue to be distributed to the poor in bread every Sunday. Thomas Townsend, Esq., is lord of the manor."

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