Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for HARDWICK-PRIORS

HARDWICK-PRIORS, a parish in Southam district, Warwickshire; adjacent to Northamptonshire and to the Oxford canal, 4 miles NE of Fenny-Compton r. station, and 5 SE by S of Southam. Post-town, Priors-Marston, under Daventry. Acres, 1,600. Real property, £2,901. Pop., 323. Houses, 65. The property is subdivided. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Worcester. Value, £240.* Patron, Earl Spencer. The church is early and decorated English, in tolerable condition.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Priors Hardwick Parish       Southam Poor Law Union/Registration District       Warwickshire Ancient County
Place: Priors Hardwick

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