Bickenhill, Warwickshire

Description
Bickenhill, a village and a parish in Warwickshire. The village is 2 miles NW of Hampton-in-Arden station, which is a junction of the L. & N.W.R. and M.R., and 8 SE of Birmingham, under which it has a post office; money order and telegraph office, Hampton-in-Arden. The parish comprises Church, Middle Bickenhill, Marston Green, and Lyndon quarters. Acreage, 2925; population of the ci vil parish, 516 ; of the ecclesiastical, 1613. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Worcester; net value, £243 with residence. Patron, the Earl of Aylesford. The church is Norman, and is a fine building of red sandstone, with an embattled tower and lofty spire. There are several stained windows. Marston Green has a proprietary chapel belonging to the Wingfield Digby family, a station on the L. & N.W.R., and a post office. Lyndon End, or Olton, is now included in Solihull parish for civil purposes only, but remains ecclesiastically in the parish of Bickenhill.