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FOLESHILL - Extract from National Gazetteer, 1868
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The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868
The Coventry and Oxford canal passes through the parish. The living is a vicarage* in the diocese of Worcester, value £352, in the patronage of the lord chancellor. The church is a neat structure, dedicated to St. Lawrence. It was enlarged in 1816 by the addition of a S. aisle, and has a very old font. There is also the district church of St. Paul, the living of which is a perpetual curacy, value £180, in the gift of the vicar. The parish register commences in 1564. The Baptists, Independents, Wesleyan and Primitive Methodists have each a chapel, and there are two National' schools for both sexes, also one for infants. Colonel Northey is lord of the manor. The Poor-law Union of Foleshill comprises 11 parishes."
"LONGFORD, a hamlet in the borough of Coventry, and hundred of Knightlow, county Warwick, 3 miles N. by E. of Coventry. It is a station on the Coventry and Nuneaton branch of the London and North-Western railway."
[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]