Description
Sowe, a village and a parish in Warwickshire. The village stands on the river Sowe, 3 1/4 miles NE by E of Coventry, is known officially as Walsgrave-upon-Sowe and has a post office under Coventry; money order office, Stoke Green; telegraph office, Longford. The parish comprises 2713 acres; population, 1456. Coal is worked. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Worcester; net value, £153 with residence. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is Perpendicular, and was restored in 1864. It contains a very ancient font. There is a chapel of ease at Hawkesbury Lane, a hamlet in the parish. There are Baptist and Congregational chapels.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
