Quinton

"QUINTON, a parish in the upper division of the hundred of Kiftsgate, county Gloucester, 6 miles from Stratford-on-Avon, its post town, and the same distance from the Campden station on the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton railway. The village, which is of small extent, is situated near Meen Hill, on the summit of which is a Saxon camp with double intrenchments, and near which many skeletons, swords, and warlike implements have been dug up.

The inhabitants are wholly agricultural. The parish includes the hamlet of Admington, and was given by Henry II. to Polesworth Nunnery. Near two-thirds of the land are arable, and the remainder pasture and woodland. A portion of the impropriate tithes belong to the Dean and Chapter of Worcester, and the remainder to Magdalen College, Oxford. The former were commuted for a rent-charge of £63, and the latter for land and a money payment under an Enclosure Act in 1772.

The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol, value £70, in the patronage of the Dean and Chapter of Worcester. The church, dedicated to St. Swithin, is a stone structure, with a spired tower containing six bells. It is supposed to have been erected by the Lacies soon after the Norman conquest. The parochial charities produce about £16 per annum. The president and fellows of Magdalen College, Oxford, are lords of the manor."

"ADMINGTON, a hamlet in the parish of Quinton, hundred of Kiftsgate, in the county of Gloucester, 5 miles to the N.E. of Chipping Camden. Admington House is the principal residence."

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]