Barton on the Heath, Warwickshire

Description
Barton-on-the-Heath, a parish in Warwickshire, on the verge of the county, near the Four-shire-stone (which marks the point of junction of the counties of Warwick, Oxford, Gloucester, and Worcester), 4 miles E of Moreton-in-the-Marsh station on the G.W.E., and 6 S of Shipton-on-Stour. It has a post office (S.O.); telegraph office, Moreton-in-the-Marsh; money order office, Long Compton. Acreage, 1177 ; population, 172. The manor belonged from the time of Henry III. to the Marshalls, and passed in the time of Elizabeth to the Overburys. Barton House is a fine Elizabethan mansion, built by Inigo Jones. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Worcester; net value, £235 with residence. Patron, Trinity College, Oxford. The church was originally Norman. It has a good Norman chancel arch and a western tower with a saddleback roof. It contains an ancient font and some memorial windows. Dover the lawyer, who instituted the Cotswold games so famous in the times of James I. and II., was a resident.