Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for NEWBOLD-PACEY

NEWBOLD-PACEY, a parish in Stratford-on-Avon district, Warwickshire; on a small affluent of the river Avon, near the Fosse way, 5¼ miles W S W of Harbury r.station, and 5¼ S by E of Warwick. It contains the hamlet of Ashorne; and its post town is Wellesbourne, under Warwick. Acres, 1,824. Real property, £2, 822. Pop., 360. Houses, 80. The property is divided among a few. The manor belonged anciently to the Paceyfamily. Newbold-Pacey Hall is the seat of J. Little, Esq.; and Ashorne House, of Capt. F. H. G. Nicolls. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Worcester. Value, £639.* Patron, Queen's College, Oxford. The church is Norman, in tolerable condition. There are an Independent chapel, a British school, and charities £4.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Newbold Pacey CP/AP       Stratford on Avon RegD/PLU       Warwickshire AncC
Place: Newbold Pacey

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