CLIFTON-UPON-DUNSMORE - Extract from National Gazetteer, 1868

"CLIFTON-UPON-DUNSMORE, a parish in the hundred of Knightlow, in the county of Warwick, 2 miles E. of Rugby, its post town and railway station. It is situated on an eminence S. of the river Avon, close to the Oxford canal. The Rugby and Stamford railway passes through the parish. It includes the township of Newton cum-Biggin and the chapelry of Brownsover. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Worcester, value with the curacy of Brownsover annexed, £119, in the patronage of the Earl of Bradford. The church, dedicated to St. Mary, is an ancient stone structure in the early English style, with an embattled tower. The register commences in 1540. The charities produce about £50 per annum. This was the birthplace of Carte, the historian, who died here in 1754. The Atherstone hounds meet here."

"BIGGIN, a hamlet in the parish of Clifton upon Dunsmore, and hundred of Knightlow, in the county of Warwick, 3 miles to the N. of Rugby."

"BROWNSOVER, a chapelry in the parish of Clifton upon Dunsmore, hundred of Knightlow, in the county of Warwick, 1 mile to the N. of Rugby. It is on the confines of Leicestershire and Northamptonshire, near the river Avon and the Midland Counties railway. The, Oxford canal passes by it, and a little to the eastward is the Roman way, Watling Street. The living is a perpetual curacy annexed to the vicarage of Clifton-upon-Dunsmore, in the diocese of Worcester. The church is dedicated to St. Michael. Near the village are Brownsover House and Coton House."

"NEWTON WITH BIGGIN, a township in the parish of Clifton-upon-Dunsmore, Rugby division of the hundred of Knightlow, county Warwick, 1½ mile N. of Clifton-upon-Dunsmoor, and 3 miles N.E. of Rugby. It is situated near the river Avon and the viaduct of the London and North-Western railway. Edward Cave, the first editor of the Gentleman's Magazine, was born here in 1691."

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