Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Brownsover

Brownsover, township, Clifton-on-Dunsmore par., N. Warwickshire, 2 miles NE. of Rugby, 872 ac., pop. 90; birth place of Laurence Sheriff, founder of Rugby School. In the township is Brownsover Hall.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "township"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Warwickshire Ancient County
Place: Brownsover

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