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OLD STRATFORD - Extract from National Gazetteer, 1868

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The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868

"OLD STRATFORD, a parish in the hundred of Barlichway, county Warwick. It includes, besides the market town of Stratford-on-Avon, the village of Old Stratford and the hamlets of Bishopton, Bushwood, Drayton, Dodwell, Luddington, and Shottery, besides parts of Wilncott. For living and other particulars see Stratford on Avon.

"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]