Hillmorton, Warwickshire

Description
Hillmorton, a village and a parish in Warwickshire. The village stands partly on an eminence, partly on an affluent of the river Avon, near the Oxford Canal and the boundary with Northampton, 2 miles from Watling Street, and 2 1/2 ESE of Rugby, and has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Rugby, and a Home Mission and reading-room, also an ancient stone cross. The upper part of it was anciently called Hill or Hull, the lower part Moreton, and these two names combined give the name of Hillmorton. The parish comprises 3124 acres; population, 1136. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Worcester; gross value, £191 with residence. The church is ancient, consists of nave, chancel, and aisles, with square tower, and contains an effigy of a priest and two monuments of the Astley family. There are Baptist and Wesleyan chapels.