Description
Caldecote, a parish in Warwickshire, on the river Anker and the Coventry Canal, 2 1/2 miles NNW of Nuneaton, which is the post town. Acreage, 709; population, 138. There is a stone quarry. Caldecote Hall, the seat of the lord of the manor, was defended in 1642 against Prince Rupert; it was rebuilt in 1880. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Worcester; net value, £128 with residence. The church is ancient, and contains monuments to the Purefoy family, and a tablet to George Abbot, Esq., the son-in-law of Colonel Purefoy, and the hero of the gallant defence of the manor house.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
