Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Wroxhall

Wroxhall, par., in co. and 6 miles NW. of Warwick, 1735 ac., pop. 176. Wroxhall Abbey, once the seat of the Wren family, stands on the site of a Benedictine nunnery founded in the reign of Stephen.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Wroxall CP/AP       Warwickshire AncC
Place: Wroxall

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