RYTON-UPON-DUNSMORE, a parish, with a village, in Rugby district, Warwick; on the river Avon, 2 miles S W of Brandon r. station, and 5 S E of Coventry. It has a post-office under Coventry. Acres, 1, 650. Real property, £3, 972. Pop., 557. Houses, 131. The property is divided among a few. The parish is a meet for the North Warwick hounds. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Worcester. Value, £126. Patrons, the Ecclesiastical Commissioners. The church is early English, with a tower; contains some ancient monuments; and was given, as a prebend, by the Prior of Coventry, to Lichfield cathedral. There is a national school.

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