Description
Lawford, Church, a village and a parish in Warwickshire, on the river Avon, near the Fosse Way, and 4 miles W by N of Rugby. There is a post and money order office under Rugby; telegraph office, Wolston. Acreage of the civil parish, 1829; population, 244; of the ecclesiastical, with Newnham Regis, 358. The manor and all the land belong to the Duke of Buccleuch. A cutting of the L. & N.W.R. was made by excavation of 500, 000 cubic yards of earth. The living is a rectory, united with the vicarage of Newnham Regis, in the diocese of Worcester; net value, £218 with residence. Patron, the Duke of Bnccleuch. The church is good, and consists of nave, aisle, and chancel, with a small tower. It originally belonged to a Norman abbey.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
