NEWBOLD-UPON-AVON - Extract from National Gazetteer, 1868

"NEWBOLD-UPON-AVON, a parish in the Rugby division of Knightlow hundred, county Warwick, 2 miles N.W. of Rugby, its nearest railway station and post town. The village is situated on the Oxford canal, near the Midland Counties railway, which passes through the parish. It is watered by the rivers Avon and Swift. The parish comprises the hamlets of Cosford, Little Harborough, Little Lawford, and Long Lawford. There are extensive lime quarries. The inhabitants are chiefly engaged in agriculture. It is a meet for the Atherstone hounds. The Master and Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge, are impropriators of part of the rectorial tithes.

The living is a vicarage* with the curacy of Long Lawford annexed, in the diocese of Worcester, value £566. The church, dedicated to St. Botolph, is an ancient structure, with a square tower containing six bells. The interior of the church, which was restored in 1853, contains monuments of the Boughton family, who formerly held the manor. There is also a chapel-of-ease at Long Lawford, recently erected by the late J. Caldecott, Esq. The parochial charities produce about £69 per annum. A schoolhouse, with master's residence, was erected in 1847, at the expense of J. T. Parker, the late vicar."

"COSFORD, a township in the parish of Newbold-upon Avon, Rugby division of the hundred of Knightlow, in the county of Warwick, 3 miles N. of Rugby. It is situated near the river Avon, and the Midland Counties railway."

"HARBOROUGH PARVA, (or Harborough Little), a hamlet in the parish of Newbold upon Avon, Rugby division of the hundred of Knightlow, county Warwick, 2 miles N.W. of Rugby. It is situated on the river Avon, near the Oxford canal and the Midland Counties railway.

"LAWFORD PARVA, (or Little Lawford), a township in the parish of Newbold-upon-Avon, hundred of Knightlow, county Warwick, 3 miles W. of Rugby. It formerly belonged to the Boughtons, but after the death of Sir Theodosius Boughton, who was poisoned by Captain Donellan in 1780, the estate was sold. There is no village.

"LONG LAWFORD, a township and chapelry in the parish of Newbold-upon-Avon, hundred of Knightlow, county Warwick, 3 miles W. of Rugby, its post town. The village, which is small, is chiefly agricultural. The township is intersected by the London and North-Western, Midland and Rugby, and Leamington lines of railway. There are some extensive lime works. The living is a curacy annexed to the vicarage* of Newbold-on-Avon, in the diocese of Worcester. The chapel-of-ease was erected in 1839 by the late John Caldecott, Esq. There are places of worship for Wesleyan and Primitive Methodists. J. W. Boughton, Esq., is lord of the manor.

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]