Description
Avon-Dassett or Dassett Parva, a village and a parish in Warwickshire, 2 miles SW of Fenny-Compton station on the G.W.R. and East and West Junction railway, and 5 E of Kineton. It has a post office under Leamington; telegraph office, Fenny-Compton. Acreage, 1435; population, 241. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Worcester; net value, £410. The church was built in 1868, on the site of the old church, which was pulled down. It contains a curious altar-tomb, with the effigy of a former incumbent in deacon's vestments. There are Roman Catholic and Wesleyan chapels. Bitham House is the chief residence.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
