Description
Newbold Pacey, a parish in Warwickshire, on a small affluent of the river Avon, near the Fosse Way, 5 miles WSW of Southam Road and Harbury station on the Oxford and Leamington section of the G.W.R., and 6 S by E of Warwick. It contains the hamlet of Ashorne, and its post town is Warwick; money order and telegraph office, Wellesbourne. Acreage, 1851; population, 338. There is a parish council consisting of five members. The manor belonged anciently to the Pacey family. Newbold Pacey Hall is the seat of the Little family. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Worcester; gross value, £172 with residence. Patron, Queen's College, Oxford. The church was rebuilt in 1881 in the Early English style, and retains two Norman doorways of The old church. There is a Congregational chapel at Ashorne.
Newbold Pacey, Warwickshire
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
