Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for GRIFF

GRIFF, a hamlet in Chilvers Coton parish, Warwick; on the Coventry canal, 2 miles S of Nuneaton. Pop., 263. Griff manor belonged, in the time of Elizabeth, to the Giffords; and passed to the Newdegates. Coal is worked.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a hamlet"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Chilvers Coton CP/AP       Warwickshire AncC
Place: Griff

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