Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for BUDBROOKE

BUDBROOKE, a parish and a subdistrict in the district and county of Warwick. The parish lies on the Birmingham and Warwick canal, and on the Birmingham and Oxford railway, 1½ mile NW of Warwick. It includes the hamlets of Hampton-on-the-Hill, and Lower Norton-with-Littleworth; and its Post Town is Warwick. Acres, 3,216. Real property, £6,288. Pop., 492. Houses, 112. Grove Park here is the seat of Lord Dormer. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Worcester. Value, £476.* Patron, Rev. H. B. Faulkner. The church is a plain edifice, with a square tower; and contains monuments of the Dormers. There is a Roman Catholic chapel. A school has £50 from endowment; and other charities £46.-The subdistrict contains nine parishes. Acres, 18,463. Pop., 4,446. Houses, 958.


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

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Feature Description: "a parish and a subdistrict"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Budbrooke AP/CP       Budbrooke SubD       Warwick RegD/PLU       Warwickshire AncC
Place: Budbrooke

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