Warkworth, Oxfordshire

Description
Warkworth, a parish, with a village and five hamlets, known as Old and New Grimsbury, Huscote, Nethercote, and Overthorpe, in Oxfordshire and Northamptonshire, 1 1/4 mile E of Banbury, where there are stations on the G.W.R. and L. & N.W.R. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Banbury. Area in Oxfordshire, 1226 acres; population, 2976; in Northamptonshire, 1329 acres; population, 55. The living is a rectory, annexed to the vicarage of Marston St Lawrence, in the diocese of Peterborough. The church is an ancient building of stone in the Decorated style, consisting of chancel, nave, N aisle, S aisle with chapel, ,S porch, and an embattled western tower. It is unusually rich in ancient brasses, tombs, and memorials.