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ILMINGTON - Extract from National Gazetteer, 1868

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The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868

"ILMINGTON, a parish in the hundreds of Kington and Kiftsgate, counties Warwick and Gloucester, 4 miles W. of Shipston-on-Stour. It contains the hamlets of Lark Stoke, Compton, Scorpion, and Foxcote. It is a meet for the Warwickshire hounds. The village is considerable, and part of the inhabitants are employed in winding silk, manufactured at the mills of Blockley and Camden. The railway from Stratford-on-Avon to Morton-in-the-Marsh passes through the parish.

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]