Barcheston, Warwickshire

Description
Barcheston, a village and a parish in Warwickshire. the village stands on the verge of the county, at the river Stour, less than a mile SE of Shipston-on-Stour, and 7 miles from Moreton-in-the-Marsh station on the G.W.B., and was a place of some consequence at the Conquest. The parish includes also the hamlet of Willington, and its post town is Shipston-on-Stour. Acreage, 1555 ; population, 161. The manor was purchased, in the reign of Henry VII., by William Willington, and passed to the family of Shcldon. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Worcester; net value, -£125 with residence. The church is Early English, built in 1281, and contains a good example of a priest's chamber (domus inclusa) attached to the tower, a monument of 1655 to the Willington family, two curious brasses, a black-letter copy of Erasmus' Paraphrase of the Scriptures, chained to the bench, and some old communion plate.