Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for HATTON

HATTON, a village and a parish in the district and county of Warwick. The village stands near the Birmingham and Warwick canal, and the Oxford and Birmingham railway, 3 iniles NW by W of Warwick; and has a station on the railway, and a post office under Warwick. The parish contains also the hamlets of Beausall and Shrewley. Acres, 4, 099. Real property, £8, 798. Pop. in 1851, 961; in 1861, 1, 259. Houses, 205. The property is subdivided. The manor belonged to Hugh de Hatton, Earl of Warwick; and was given by him to Wroxhall abbey. The county lnnatic asylum was recently built here, at a cost of £50, 000; is an elegant structnre, in a modified Tudor style, with a frontage of 700 feet; stands on a plot of 40 acres, handsomely laid out; possesses accommodation for about 350 patients;.and, at the census of 1861, had 299 inmates. Hatton Hill commands a fine view of the surrounding country. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Worcester. Value, £250.* Patrons, Trustees. The church is in good order; has some striking modern painted glass; and contains a tablet to Dr. Samuel Parr, and many monumental inscriptions from his pen. Parr was long the incumbent of the parish; and a noble room in the parsonage was built by him for a library. An endowed school has £20 a year, and other charities have £100.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village and a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Hatton AP/CP       Warwick RegD/PLU       Warwickshire AncC
Place: Hatton

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