Chesterton, Warwickshire

Description
Chesterton, a parish in Warwickshire, on the Fosse Way, and on an affluent of the river Avon, 2 miles SW of Har-bury station on the G.W.R., and 4^ SW by S of Southam, and 5 NE of Kineton. It includes Kingston hamlet, and its post town is Harbury under Leamington. Acreage, 3585; population, 184. The manor belonged formerly to the family of Peto, and belongs now to Lord Willoughby de Broke. The manor-house was built by one of the Peto family, and was enlarged in 1630, after designs by Inigo Jones, and demolished in 1802. A large windmill of circular form, on six arches, designed by Inigo Jones, surmounts an eminence near the church. A Roman camp, supposed by some to have been the Roman station Medio-lanum, is within the parish on the Fosse Way, and has yielded Roman coins. The living is a vicarage, annexed to the rectory of Lighthorne, in the diocese of Worcester; gross value, £258 with residence. Patron, Lord Willoughby de Broke. The church is ancient, and contains three fine monuments of the Peto family. Lord Cobham, the famous Wickliffite, found shelter with the incumbent in Henry V.'s time, and Cardinal Peto, the Pope's legate in the reign of Mary, was a native.