BULKINGTON, a village and a parish in Nuneaton district, Warwick. The village stands near the Coventry canal and the Trent Valley railway, 4 miles SE by S of Nuneaton; and has a station on the railway, and a post office under Rugby. The parish includes also the hamlets of Marston-Jabbett, Ryton, Weston-in-Arden, Wolvershill, and parts of Barnacle and Bramcott. Acres, 4,510. Real property, £9,358. Pop., 1,858. Houses, 450. The property is much subdivided. Many of the inhabitants are ribbon-weavers. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Worcester. Value, £253.* Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is good; and there are three dissenting chapels, fine Church schools built in 1862, and charities £68.

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