Description
Wishaw, a parish in Warwickshire, 3 miles N of Water Orton station on the M.R., and 4 N of Coleshill. It has a post office under Birmingham; money order office, Minworth; telegraph office, Water Orton. It includes the hamlet of Moxhull. Acreage, 1204; population, 180. Moxhull Hall is a handsome modern mansion, situated in a well-wooded park with a fine sheet of water. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Worcester; net value, £285 with residence. The church is Early English, with an ivy-clad pinnacled tower, and was restored in 1886. It contains some ancient monuments to the Hacket family.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
