Description
Hardwick Priors or Priors Hardwick, a village and a parish in Warwickshire, adjacent to Northamptonshire and to the Oxford Canal, 4 miles NE of Fenny Compton station on the G.W.R. and East & West Junction railway, and 6 SE by S of Southam. There is a post office under Daventry; money order office, Priors Marston; telegraph office, Byfield (R.S.O.) Acreage, 1535; population, 267. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Worcester; value, £176. Patron, Earl Spencer. The church is Early and Decorated English, and was restored in 1869.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
