Long Itchington, Warwickshire

Description
Itchington, Long, a village and a parish in Warwickshire. The village stands on the river Itchen, near the Warwick and Napton Canal, 2 miles NNW of Southam, and 2S of Marton station on the Rugby, Leamington, and Warwick branch of the L. & N.W.E., and has a post and money order office under Eugby; telegraph office, Stockton. The parish contains also the hamlets of Stoney Thorpe and Bas-cote. Acreage, 4869; population of the civil parish, 1171; of the ecclesiastical, 1103. The manor belonged to the Odingsells, and passed through several hands to Dudley, Earl of Leicester, who here entertained Queen Elizabeth on her way to Kenilworth. Stoneythorpe is the chief residence. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Worcester; net value, £236 with residence. The church formerly belonged to the abbey of Hertford. At the time of the dissolution of monasteries it belonged to Maxstoke Priory, which presented several vicars in the 15th or 16th centuries. It consists of nave, S aisle, and chancel, with a tower, and was restored in 1866. There are Congregational and Primitive Methodist chapels. St Wulfstan was a native.