Witton, Upper

WITTON, UPPER, a hamlet, in the parish and union of Aston, Birmingham division of the hundred of Hemlingford, N. division of the county of Warwick, 3½ miles (N. E. by E.) from Birmingham; containing 157 inhabitants. This place, at the time of the Domesday survey, was styled Witone, and subsequently Wicton. In Dugdale's time the manor belonged to William Booth, Esq., to whom the antiquary acknowledges his obligations for valuable assistance rendered to him in the compilation of The Antiquities of Warwickshire.