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COMBROOK, a chapelry in Kineton parish, Warwick; adjacent to the Fosse way, 2 miles W by N of Kineton, and 7½ SSW of Southam-Road r. station. Post town, Kineton, under Warwick. Real property, £1, 293. Pop., 228. Houses, 55. Compton Verney is the seat of the Verneys. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Worcester. Value and patron, not reported. There is a Wesleyan chapel. Verney's school has £25 a year from endowment, with two scholarships at Trinity college, Cambridge.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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Feature Description: | "a chapelry" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
Administrative units: | Combrook CP/Ch Kineton AP/CP Warwickshire AncC |
Place: | Combrook |
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