Baddesley Clinton, Warwickshire

Description
Baddesley-Clinton, a parish in Warwickshire, near the Warwick and Birmingham Canal, 1 1/2 mile E of Kingswood station on the G.W.R., and 7 miles NW of Warwick. Post town, Knowie; telegraph office, Knowie station, 2 1/2 miles distant. Acreage, 1366; population, 132. Baddesley Hall is the seat of the Ferrers family, two of whom were distinguished in the seventeenth century, one being an antiquary and poet, and the other a dramatist. The manor house dates from the fifteenth century, and is a picturesque mansion with an embattled tower; it is surrounded by a wide moat, and is situated in a well-timbered park. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Worcester; value, £76. The church is Early English, and was partially rebuilt in 1517 and 1634, and restored in 1874. It is a small plain edifice, consisting of chancel, nave, and a massive embattled tower; it contains some ancient altar tombs to members of the Ferrers family. There are a Roman Catholic chapel and a nunnery in the parish.