Description

Chilvers-Coton, a village and a parish in Warwickshire. The village stands adjacent to the Coventry Canal, adjoins Nuneaton, and has a station on the Coventry and Nuneaton branch of the L. & N.W.R., and a post, money order, and telegraph office under Nuneaton. The parish includes also Griff hamlet, Arbury Park, and Nuneaton workhouse, and is a district under the Nuneaton and Chilvers local board. The parishes were united for sanitary purposes in 1893. Acreage, 4056; population, 3720. Ribbon-weaving and coal-mining are carried on; there are also brick and tile works, and an iron foundry. The manor belonged formerly to the monastery of Erdbury, and now to the Newdegate family. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Worcester; net value, £ 215 with residence. The church is ancient, and there are Wes-leyan, Congregational, and Roman Catholic chapels. See ARBURY HALL.