LONG ITCHINGTON - Extract from National Gazetteer, 1868

"LONG ITCHINGTON, a parish in the Southam division of the hundred of Knightlow, county Warwick, 2 miles N.W. of Southam, and 2 from the Marton station, on the London and North-Western railway. It is situated on the river Ichene, or Watergall, and near the Warwick canal. It contains the hamlets of Stoney Thorpe and Bascote. It was the birth-place of St. Wulfstan, and came through the Odingsells, &c., to Dudley, Earl of Leicester, who entertained Queen Elizabeth here on her way to Kenilworth, in 1575. Blue limestone is abundant.

This place is a meet for the Warwickshire hounds. The tithes were commuted for land and a money payment under an Enclosure Act in 1775. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Worcester, value £190. The church, dedicated to the Holy Trinity, is a plain ancient structure with a tower. The parochial charities produce about £31 per annum, of which £26 goes to Bosworth's and Tompkin's school. A National school was built in 1855.

"BASCOTE, a hamlet in the parish of Long Itchington, hundred of Knightlow, in the county of Warwick, 2 miles to the N. of Southam."

"STONEY THORPE, a hamlet in the parish of Long Itchington, county Warwick, 1 mile W. of Southam, on the river Ichene, near the ancient Fosse Way."

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