Foleshill, Warwickshire

Description
Foleshill, a town, a parish, and the head of a poor-law union in Warwickshire. The town stands adjacent to the Oxford and Coventry Canals, 2 1/4 miles NNE of Coventry, has a station on the Coventry and Nuneaton branch of the L. & N.W.R., and a post office under Coventry (money order and telegraph office, Coventry), and participates in the ribbon, silk, and'other manufactures of Coventry. The parish comprises 2689 acres; population, 8664. It includes the hamlet of Longford, which has a post and telegraph office and a station on the railway. Iron-founding, coal-mining, and brick-making are carried on. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Worcester; net value, £260 with residence. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. Population of ecclesiastical parish, 4559. The church is ancient, was restored in 1889, and has a Norman font. The church of St Thomas is a chapel of ease erected in 1874. St Paul's is an ecclesiastical parish constituted in 1842. Population, 4105. The living is a vicarage in the gift of the Vicar of Foleshill; gross value, £321. The church is a red brick edifice in the Early English style. There are Congregational, Baptist, Wesleyan, and Primitive Methodist chapels, and a workhouse.