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Newbold-Upon-Avon (St. Botolph)

NEWBOLD-UPON-AVON (St. Botolph), a parish, in the union of Rugby, Rugby division of the hundred of Knightlow, N. division of the county of Warwick, 2½ miles (N. W. by N.) from Rugby; containing, with the hamlets of Cosford, Little Harborough, Little Lawford, and Long Lawford, 1248 inhabitants, of whom 476 are in the hamlet of Newbold. In the time of the Conqueror, Newbold was held by Geoffrey Wirce; in the reign of Henry I., by the Pantolfs; and in that of Edward I., by the convent of Pipewell and the monks of Kirby. After the Dissolution, the lands called Newbold Grange were granted to the Boughtons, but the manor was obtained by Thomas Wightman, who sold it, 4th of Elizabeth, to Sir Thomas Leigh, Knt., alderman of London, to whose heir, Lord Dunsmore, it was confirmed, 15th Charles I. The estate which belonged to the monks of Kirby was obtained by the Boughtons of Lawford. The parish is situated on the river Avon, and the river Swift, and comprises 3971 acres, of which 1433 are in the hamlet. Limestone of good quality for building and for manure is extensively quarried. The Oxford canal, and the London and Birmingham and the Midland railways pass through the parish. The rateable annual value of the canal property here is returned at £2588, and of the railway property at £1246. The living is a vicarage, endowed with a portion of the rectorial tithes, valued in the king's books at £14. 12. 1., and in the patronage of the family of Leigh; net income, £382; impropriators of the remainder of the rectorial tithes, the Master and Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge. The glebe comprises 180 acres. The church is a handsome structure, beautifully situated near the Avon: it contains several monuments to the different branches of the Boughtons. A chapel of ease was erected at Long Lawford, by the late J. Caldecott, Esq.

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

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