Farnborough, Warwickshire

Description
Farnborough, a village and a parish in Warwickshire, "2 miles from the Oxford Canal, 2 SSE of Fenny Compton station on the East and West Junction and G.W.R., and 6 NW of Banbury, with a post, money order, and telegraphoffice under Banbury. The manor was known at Domesdayas Fernberge; belonged from the time of Richard I. till that of Edward III. to the Says, and passed first to the Raleighs, afterwards to the Holbech family. Farnborough Hall, the seat of the lord of the manor, is a handsome modem mansion standing in extensive grounds. There is a chalybeate spring, which was anciently called St Botolph's well. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Worcester; net value, £240 with residence. The church is ancient, and was restored in 1875 by Sir Gilbert Scott.