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Stockton (St. Michael)

STOCKTON (St. Michael), a parish, in the union of Southam, Southam division of the hundred of Knightlow, S. division of the county of Warwick, 2¼ miles (N. E. by E.) from Southam; containing 452 inhabitants. It is situated on the road from Southam to Dunchurch, and comprises 1363a. 12p., of which about 1315 acres are cultivated, and chiefly arable; the surface is in general flat, and the soil rests upon blue lias. The Warwick and Napton canal intersects the parish at its northern boundary. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at £10. 7. 1.; net income, £283; patrons, the Warden and Fellows of New College, Oxford: the tithes were commuted for land in 1791, and there is a glebe-house. The church is partly in the decorated English style, with a tower; the nave is of much more modern date than either the tower or chancel. Here are two parochial schools, one for boys and one for girls. Fossils are frequently found in the neighbourhood.

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

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