Quinton, Gloucestershire

Description
Quinton, a parish in Gloucestershire, under Meon Hill, and adjacent to Warwickshire, 2 miles E by S of Long Marston station on the G.W.R., and 6 S by W of Stratford-on-Avon. It contains the village of Lower Quinton and the hamlets of Upper Quinton and Admington. Lower Quinton has a post and money order office under Stratford-on-Avon; telegraph office, Mickleton. Acreage, 3457; population, 565. Quinton House and Admington Hall are the chief residences. Radbrook, an old seat of the Lingen family, is now a farmhouse. The manor belongs to Magdalen College, Oxford. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol; net value, £200 with residence. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Worcester. The church is chiefly Decorated, and was restored in 1864. It has a fine tower with a lofty spire, and contains a Norman font, piscinas and sedilia, and some ancient tombs.