In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Wormleighton like this:
WORMLEIGHTON, a parish in Southam district, Warwick; on the Oxford canal, 1½ mile E by N of Fenny-Compton r. station. It has a post-office under Leamington. Acres, 2,320. Real property, £3,980. Pop., 203. Houses, 39. The property belongs to Earl Spencer. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Worcester. Value, £80.* Patron, Earl Spencer. The church was recently restored.
Wormleighton through time
Wormleighton is now part of Stratford on Avon district. Click here for graphs and data of how Stratford on Avon has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Wormleighton itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Wormleighton, in Stratford on Avon and Warwickshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/9474
Date accessed: 20th April 2024
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