Austrey, Warwickshire

Description
Austrey, a village and a parish picturesquely situated under the watershed that separates Leicestershire from Warwickshire on the E, 4 miles NE of Polesworth station on the L. & N.W.R., 6 1/2 E by N of Tamworth, and 6 N of Atherstone, under which it has a post office; telegraph office, Twycross, 4 miles distant; money order office, Newton Regis. Acreage, 2125; population, 306. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Worcester; net value, £209. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church was built in 1244, and is in the Early English and Decorated styles. It has a tower with a lofty spire, and contains a handsome carved oak reredos. There is a Baptist chapel, a manor house, and an ancient farmhouse of Jacobean date. The ancient name was " Aldestrie," or village near the Alder-meadows.