BICKENHILL (CHURCH), a parish in the Solihull division of the hundred of HEMLINGFORD, county of WARWICK, 4 miles (N. B.) from Solihull, containing, with Lyndon and Marston Quarters, 648 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Coventry, and diocese of Lichfield and Coventry, rated in the king's books at £7. 17. 3., and endowed with £1000 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of the Earl of Aylesford. The church is dedicated to St. Peter. The Warwick and Birmingham canal passes in the vicinity. Here was anciently a castle, the site of which is now occupied by a farm-house; and a beacon formerly stood where the church now is.