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Lea-Marston (St. John the Baptist)

LEA-MARSTON (St. John the Baptist), a parish, in the union of Meriden, Atherstone division of the hundred of Hemlingford, N. division of the county of Warwick, 3 miles (N.) from Coleshill; containing 278 inhabitants. The parish is situated on the banks of the river Tame, and contains 1422 acres, of which 57 acres are woodland, the remainder being arable and pasture, the former predominating; the surface is level, and the soil light and gravelly, and of productive quality. The Birmingham and Fazeley canal is only three-quarters of a mile distant from the village; and in the neighbourhood the Derby railway branches off into two lines, one leading to Birmingham and the other to Hampton-in-Arden. The living is a perpetual curacy; net income, £99; patron and impropriator, C. B. Adderley, Esq.: the tithes were commuted for land in 1775. The church is of very ancient date. Schools for boys and girls have been lately built at the cost of the patron.

Transcribed from A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858.

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