Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for ALLESLEY

ALLESLEY, a parish in Meriden district, Warwick; near the Northwestern railway, 2 miles NW of Coventry. It has a post office under Coventry. Acres, 4,225. Real property, £9,979. Pop., 974. Houses, 207. The property is much subdivided. The manor belongs to E. V. Neale, Esq. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Worcester. Value, £749.* Patron, the Rev. W. T. Bree. The church was restored and enlarged in 1864. There are an educational establishment called Allesley Park College, an endowed school for boys, a subscription school for girls, and charities £69.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Allesley Ch/AP/CP       Meriden RegD/PLU       Warwickshire AncC
Place: Allesley

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