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STRATFORD (Old), a parish and a sub-district in Warwick. The parish contains Stratford-upon-Avon borough, Old Stratford proper, and Luddington hamlet in Stratford-upon-Avon district, and Bushwood hamlet in Solihull district. Post town, Stratford-upon-Avon. Acres, 6,860. Real property, £34,724; of which £500 are in gasworks. Pop. in 1851, 6,456; in 1861, 6,823. Houses, 1,477. Clopton House was long the seat of the Clopton family, and was recently renovated. Welcombe Lodge was the residence of the Combes, the friends of Shakespeare, and has been dismantled. A mineral spring is at Bishopton. Entrenchments, formed in war-like operations between the Saxons and the Danes, are at Welcombe. The living is a vicarage, with the chapelry of St. James-the-Great, in the diocese of Worcester. Value, £239.* Patron, the Countess of Amherst. The church will be noticed. in the article on Stratford-upon-Avon. The chapelry of Holy Cross and the p. curacy of Bishopton are separate charges.The sub-district excludes S.-upon-Avon borough, includes 8 other parishes, and is in S.-upon-Avon district. Acres, 22,680. Pop., 5,931. Houses, 1,323.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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Feature Description: | "a parish and a sub-district" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
Administrative units: | Old Stratford CP/AP Warwickshire AncC |
Place names: | OLD STRATFORD | STRATFORD | STRATFORD OLD |
Place: | Stratford on Avon |
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