Description
Claverdon, a village and a parish in Warwickshire. The village stands near the Birmingham and Stratford Canal, 6 miles W of Warwick, and has a station on the G.W.R., and a post and money order office under Warwick; telegraph office at the railway station. The parish includes also the hamlets of Langley, Lye Green, and Yarningale Common, Acreage, 2754; population, 550. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Worcester; joint net value, £216. Patron, the Archdeacon of Worcester. The church is ancient, and! was partly rebuilt in 1830 and restored in 1878. The ancient mansion of the Spencers was in Claverdon, but only one tower remains.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
