Description
Curdworth, a village and a parish in Warwickshire. The village stands near the river Tame, the Fazeley Canal, 1 1/2 mile N of Water-Orton station on the M.R., and 3 miles NNW of Coleshill, and has a post office under Birmingham ; money order office, Minworth; telegraph office, Water Orton. Acreage of civil parish, 1657; population, 292; of ecclesiastical, 758. The ecclesiastical parish includes the two civil parishes of Cudworth and Minworth, which are separated from one another by a spur ( 1/2 mile wide) from the parish of Suttoa Coldfield. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Worcester ; value, £350 with residence. The church is Early English. There is a Wesleyan chapel, and a Congregation;!.! chapel at Minworth. Dunton Hall is now an agricultural training school.
Curdworth, Warwickshire
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
