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Radway (St. Peter)

RADWAY (St. Peter), a parish, in the union of Banbury, Kington division of the hundred of Kington, S. division of the county of Warwick, 4 miles (S. E. by E.) from Kington; containing 374 inhabitants, and consisting of 1408 acres. This place is said to have derived its name from the red colour of the soil, and from its situation near the passage leading up to Edge-Hill, on the borders of the parish. The battle of Edge-Hill was fought upon the 23rd of October 1642, and Charles I. slept at Radway the night after the engagement. The living is a discharged vicarage, valued in the king's books at £5. 12., and in the patronage of the Crown; net income, £111; impropriators, the family of Blencowe, and others. The tithes were commuted for land at the inclosure; the glebe comprises 87 acres. The church is a plain old edifice. There is a place of worship for the Society of Friends.

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

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