Wyken

WYKEN, a parish, in the union of Foleshill, county of Warwick, 3 miles (N. E. by E.) from Coventry; containing 115 inhabitants, and comprising 787 acres of a highly productive soil. Some mines are worked here, the rateable annual value of which is returned at £218. The living is a perpetual curacy; net income, £115; patron and impropriator, the Earl of Craven. The church has a tower, and is very ancient, about 700 years old; the eastern window is of stained glass, with the arms of the Craven family emblazoned on it: the edifice was thoroughly repaired in 1839. The well-known apple called the Wyken pippin was first planted here; the parent apple was brought from Holland.