Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for FOXCOTE

FOXCOTE, a village in Ilmington parish, Warwick; 4¼ miles W of Shipston-on-Stour. The estate around it belonged, in the time of Henry VI., to Sir William Montfort; went to the Marshalls; and passed to the Cannings, -of whom was the famous premier, the Right Hon. George Canning.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Ilmington CP/AP       Warwickshire AncC
Place: Foxcote

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