Description
Budbrooke, a parish in Warwickshire. It lies near the Birmingham and Warwick canal, 1 1/2 mile NW of Warwick, It includes the hamlets of Hampton-on-the-Hill, and Lower Norton, and its post-town is Warwick. Acreage, 3289; population, 908. Grove Park here is the seat of Lord Dormer, who is lord of the manor. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Worcester; gross value, £370 with residence.. The church, originally Norman, was restored in 1874, and contains monuments of the Dormers. The headquarters of the 6th Regimental District and the Royal Warwickshire Territorial Regiment are situated here. There is also a Roman Catholic chapel at Hampton-on-the-Hill.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
