Barford, Warwickshire

Description
Barford, a village and a parish in Warwickshire. The village stands on the river Avon amid pleasant environs, 3-miles S by W of Warwick, contains some fine houses, and has a postal telegraph office under Warwick. The parish comprises 1677 acres; population, 719. Barford House, Barford Hall, and Watchbury House are the chief residences. There is a handsome stone bridge of 3 arches across the Avon. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Worcester; gross value, £640 with residence. The church was rebuilt in 1844, but includes the square tower of a previous edifice, which belonged to the Abbey of Evesham. Dugdale mentions a church about 1200. On the tower may still be seen the marks of the cannon-balls of the Parliamentary troops in the Civil War. The church was enlarged in 1884, and contains several monuments of the Mills family. There are Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels, and an endowed school, founded about 1500.