Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for STOCKINGFORD

STOCKINGFORD, a chapelry, with a straggling village, in Nuneaton parish, Warwick; on the Birmingham and Leicester railway, 2 miles W of Nuneaton. It has a station on the railway, and a postal pillar-box under Nuneaton; and it was constituted in 1854. Rated property, £3,324. Pop., 1,610. Houses, 376. The property is subdivided. Ribbon-weaving is carried on; and there are collieries and brick-works. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Worcester. Value, £120.* Patron, the Vicar of Nuneaton. The church was built in 1824. There is a national school.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a chapelry, with a straggling village"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Nuneaton AP/CP       Warwickshire AncC
Place: Stockingford

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