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ceeding 1 foot in length, was discovered in the centre of an immense piece of the rock. Emscote-bridge extends over the Avon, close by the confluence of the Leam, with eight arches, which, from their pointed style and formation, prove it to be of great antiquity. A little on its right is seen the old water-mill of the manor, and upon a gentle aclivity, immediately contiguous to the road, on the right, stands the old manor-house, at present occupied by Miss Atkins. This building has been externally modernized, but its interior bears many vestiges of its antiquity and modern curtailment. A horse chesnut tree, of venerable growth and vast size, (encircled at its base by a rustic seat) forms an interesting object of attention. Contigu ous to the gate of entrance, and from this point, a new and fine line of road, and excellent pathway, leads through a romantic dell to Leamington Spa. Proceeding by the road, the prodigious rocks of sandstone rise to the surface, which tend so much to beautify this popular watering-place, already far extended in this direction, and from the new roads and streets already projected, promising ere long an advance throughout this lordship. From one of these quarries, popular tradition states, that a subterraneous communication extends to Kenilworth castle.

EMSCOTE or EDMONSCOTE, -a small village, one part is in the parish of St. Nicholas, Warwick, and the other in the parish of Milverton. The bridge, by which it is divided, and where the extensive flour-mill, lime-works, coal-wharf, &c. present a busy and intersting scene, together with the nursery-gardens of Mr. Brownridge, and several new houses, shew evident marks of improvement in this quarter. A new and excellent road from Warwick to Leamington Spa, enters the manor at the Navigation Flour Mills; these were projected by Messrs. Tomes and Handley, in 1805. The back shot iron wheel is turned by the excess of water from the Warwick and Napton Canal, down a considerable fall, and which thence flows into the Avon. A short distance to the right, this canal enters the Emscote aqueduct, and is conveyed over the Avon by this mag nificent structure, which is built of stone, and extending in length 216 feet, in breadth 35, and in height 34. The trough of the canal and horse towing-path are thus supported on three stupendous arches, rising 21 feet from the level of the river beneath.

Cryfield, Canley, and Hill, are also villages belonging to Stoneleigh, but of little note, and containing only a few cottages.

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ASHOWE,-a parish and village in the hundred of Knightlow, 4 miles from Warwick, and 94 from London. In 1803, its parochial rates were £159 5s. 9d. at 5s. 6d. in the pound. In 1811, it contained 205 inhabitants. In 1821, 42 houses and 178 inhabitants. In 1826, it was valued at £1,836, and its proportion to the county rate was £7 12s. lld. The living is a rectory, value £6 28. 1d. Patron, Lord Leigh.

It was in the time of Edward IV. in the family of the Hugfords, and now belongs to the manor of Stoneleigh.

LEEK WOOTTON, -a parish in Knightlow hundred, 3 miles N. from Warwick, and 93 from London. In 1803, its parochial rates were £285 1s. 6d. at 4s. 6d. in the pound. In 1811, its population was 406. In 1821, it contained 86 houses and 436 inhabitants. In 1826, it was valued at £3,378, and its proportion to the county rate was £38 19s. It is a vicarage, value £5 12s. 1d.

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STARTON, Dugdale supposes its name to be derived from the Stour or stream. It was formerly attached to, and continues in the same hands as, Stoneleigh.

FINBORGH,-was the name of a house; this hamlet was given by Henry 1. to his falconer, by the service of his keeping a falcon.

FINHAM,-a hamlet to Stoneleigh, possessed by the monks from the foundation of Stoneleigh Abbey. There was only one house here 'in Dugdale's time.

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FLETCHAMPSTEAD, - (in Dugdale's time divided into upper and lower) -a hamlet to Stoneleigh. Henry VIII. granted upper or over Fletchampstead to John Beaumont, as a manor. In 2nd Edward VI. it passed to William Humberton, it was afterwards purchased by Sir Thomas Leigh, and still remains in that family. Lower Fletchampstead was purchased by John Smith, an attorney, of Spon-street, Coventry, and his son Henry made a park here in the time of Henry VII. but it is gone to decay.

HURST, a small village, containing only 3 or 4 houses.

LEAMINGTON-PRIORS-a parish in Knightlow hundred-is 2 miles east of Warwick and 89 from London. In 1803, the sum raised by its parochial rates, including poor rates, highway rates, &c. was £336 8s 10d at 4s 4d in the pound. In 1801, the population was only 315, the number of houses being only 67. In 1821, it contained 399 houses and 2,183 inhabitants. Thus, at the conclusion of 20 years, containing a greater number of houses than it did persons at the commencement, and seven times the number of persons that it included at that period. In 1826

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it was valued at £9,348, and its proportion to the county rate was £38 19s. It is a vicarage value £610s. The church, dedicated to All Saints, was originally a chapel to Leck Wootton. Market on Wednesday.

Leamington-Priors is pleasantly situate on the banks of the river Leam, from which it derives the first part of its name; and that of Priors, from having formerly belonged to the Priors of Kenilworth.

Leamington was anciently a part of the enormous possessions of Turchill, the last and most powerful of all the Earls of Warwick of the Saxon line. In Doomsday-book, Leamington was stated to contain two hides in extent, (about 200 acres) valued at £4, and having two mills within its precincts. The son of Turchill was despoiled of this part of his paternal estate, and it was granted by the king to Roger de Montmorency, a Norman baron, afterwards created Earl of Shrewsbury. His title and estates descended to his son, Hugh, and from him to his brother, Robert, who, in the time of William Rufus, was called De Belesme, from the name of a castle that belonged to him, but being afterwards declared a traitor, all his possessions were seized, and Leamington was granted to the bishop of Lichfield and Coventry. Shortly after it passed to Geoffrey de Clinton, and was by him transferred to Gilbert Nutricius, of Warwick, and his heirs, who held it by the service of half a knight's fee; however it soon reverted to its former possessor, and his son, Geoffry de Clinton, about the year 1166, gave it to the Canon and the Priors of Kenilworth, who retained it till the general and fatal fall of monastic institutions in the reign of Henry VIII. It was retained by the crown till the 6th of Queen Elizabeth, when she granted it to the brave and virtuous Ambrose Dudley, Earl of Warwick, but in default of male issue his title became extinct; though soon after it was revived in Robert, Lord Rich. From this period Leamington had many proprietors. At present the manorial rights, and a portion of the land within the parish, belong to the noble family of Aylesford.

Of the saline springs we have given an account from Camden, Speed, and Dugdale, at the commencement of this work. Fuller, in his History of the Worthies of Great Britain, (1662,) with his usual quaintness observes, "At Leamington, two miles from Warwick, there issue out, within a stride, of the womb of the earth, two twin springs, as different in taste and operation, as Jacob and Esau in disposition; the one salt, the other fresh. This the meanest country

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