Description
Grendon, a parish in Warwickshire, on the river Anker and the Coventry Canal, contiguous to Leicestershire, 2 1/2 miles NW by N of Atherstone. It includes Whittington hamlet, and its post town is Atherstone. Acreage, 2415; population, 681. Grendon Hall, a fine large edifice mainly rebuilt in 1825, has been for centuries the seat of the Chet-wynd family. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Worcester; gross value,, £450 with residence. The church consists of nave, chancel, aisles, and transept, with a south porch and embattled tower. There is a Free Methodist chapel.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
