Aston Cantlow, Warwickshire

Description
Aston-Cantlow or Aston-Cantelupe, a parish in Warwickshire, on the river Alne, near the Birmingham and Stratford Canal, 1 1/2 mile E of Great Alne station on the G.W.R., 4 miles NE of Alcester, and 6 NW of Stratford-on-Avon. The parish includes the hamlets of Newnham, Shelfield, Little Alne, Pathlow, and Wilmcote, the two latter forming a separate ecclesiastical parish. It has a post-office under Birmingham; the money order office is at Henley in Arden, 4 miles N, and the telegraph office at Bearley railway station, 2 1/2 miles SE. Acreage, 4894; population, 945. The manor belonged anciently to the Cantelupes. The right to a market was obtained by one of them in the time of Henry III., but has gone into disuse. The living is avicarage in the diocese of Worcester; value, £83. The church is a stone edifice, dating from the thirteenth century, and has an embattled tower with pinnacles; it contains an ancient font.