BAGINGTON, a parish in the Kenilworth division
of the hundred of KNIGHTLOW, county of WARWICK,
3 miles (S. byE.) from Coventry, containing 281 inhabitants.
The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of
Coventry, and diocese of Lichfield and Coventry, rated
in the king's books at £8. 1. 8., and in the patronage
of the Rev. W. D. Bromley. The church is dedicated
to St. John the Baptist. Here was anciently a castle,
in -which the Duke of Hereford, afterwards Henry IV.,
lodged previously to the day appointed for the combat
between him and the Duke of Norfolk, at Coventry, in
the reign of Richard II.