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LAPWORTH - 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 £428, in the patronage of Merton College, Oxford. The church, dedicated to St. Mary, is an ancient structure with a tower and spire. The charities produce about £412 per annum. The Independents have a place of worship. The free school for both sexes is a new building situated near the church. P. Wykeham Martin, Esq., and George Miller, Esq., are lords of the manor."
"KINGSWOOD, a hamlet in the parishes of Lapworth and Rowington, county Warwick, 4 miles N.E. of Henley-in-Arden. It is a station on the Oxford, Warwick, and Birmingham branch of the Great Western railway, and is intersected by the Birmingham and Stratford-on-Avon canal."
[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]