Description
Moreton Morrell, a parish in Warwickshire, on the Fosse-Way, 4 miles NW of Kineton station on the East and West Junction railway, and 6 S by E of Warwick. It has a post office under Warwick; money order and telegraph office, Wellesbourne. Acreage, 1678; population, 252. Moreton Hall is the chief residence. Limestone abounds, and there is a petrifying spring. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Worcester; net value, £105 with residence. The church. consists of nave and chancel, with porch and tower, and was restored in 1886. There is a Wesleyan chapel.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
