Description
Atherstone-on-Stour, a village and a parish in Warwickshire, on the river Stour, 3 miles S by E of Stratford-on-Avon. It contains the hamlet of Ailstone, and its post town is Stratford-on-Avon. Acreage, 1089; population, 115. The manor belonged, in the time of Edward III., to John de Langley. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Worcester; net value, £140. The church is ancient, in the Decorated style, and was rebuilt in 1876. Dr Thomas, the editor of Dugdale's "Antiquities of Warwickshire," was a native.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
