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OLD STRATFORD - Extract from National Gazetteer, 1868
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The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868
"BISHOPTON, (or Bishopston), a hamlet in the parish of Old Stratford, hundred of Barlichway, in the county of Warwick, 2 miles from Stratford-on-Avon, its post town. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Worcester, value £25, in the gift of the Vicar of Old Stratford. The church, long decayed, is dedicated to St. Peter.
"BUSHWOOD, a hamlet in the parish of Old Stratford, hundred of Barlichway, in the county of Warwick, not far from Stratford-on-Avon."
"DODWELL, a hamlet united with Luddington, in the parish of Old Stratford, in the county of Warwick, 2 miles S.W. of Stratford-on-Avon."
"DRAYTON, a township in the parish of Old Stratford, hundred of Barlichway, in the county of Warwick, 2 miles W. of Stratford-on-Avon."
"HILLBORO, a hamlet in the parish of Old Stratford, county Warwick, 5 miles W. of Stratford. It is in a pleasant spot near the river Avon and the Roman Fosse Way, and is spoken of by Shakspeare as the "Haunted Hillboro"."
"LUDDINGTON AND DODWELL, a hamlet in the parish of Old Stratford, county Warwick, 3 miles S.W. of Stratford-upon-Avon. This neighbourhood is watered by the navigable river Avon. Here are remains of an ancient chapel, said to be the one in which Shakspeare was married."
"SHOTTERY, a hamlet in the parish of Old Stratford, county Warwick, 1½ mile W. of Stratford-on-Avon. In the hamlet still stands the cottage where Anne Hathaway lived previously to her marriage with Shakspeare, in 1582."
"WILNCOTT, a hamlet in the parishes of Aston Cantlow and Old Stratford, county Warwick, 3 miles N.W. of Stratford-on-Avon, on the Birmingham canal."
[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]