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ILMINGTON - Extract from National Gazetteer, 1868
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The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868
The living is a rectory* in the diocese of Worcester, value £624. The church is dedicated to St. Mary. The parochial charities produce 258 per annum. There is a place of worship for Wesleyans; also a National school. The strong chalybeate spring, about a quarter of a mile to the N.W. of the village, was formerly much frequented."
"COMPTON SCORPION, (or Scorfen), a hamlet in the parish of Ilmington, hundred of Kington, in the county of Warwick, 3 miles W. of Shipston-on-Stour. Sir Thomas Overbury was a native of this place. The manor anciently belonged to the Palmers.
"FOXCOTE, a village in the parish of Ilmington, county Warwick, 4 miles W. of Shipston-on-Stour; the ancient seat of the Canning family."
"LARK-STOKE, a hamlet in the parish of Ilmington, upper division of the hundred of Kiftsgate, county Gloucester, 4 miles N.E. of Chipping Campden. There is no village."
[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]