BRINKLOW, a parish in the Kirby division of the hundred of KNIGHTLOW, county of WARWICK, 6 miles (N.W.) from Rugby, containing 757 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Coventry, and diocese of Lichfield and Coventry, rated in the king's books at £17. 10., and in the patronage of the Crown; The church is dedicated to St. John the Baptist. There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists. Here was formerly a castle belonging to the family of Mowbray, and subsequently to that of De Stuteville; to a number of the latter King John granted permission to hold a weekly market at this place. The Oxford canal crosses the parish, and in its course through it is twice intersected by the Roman Fosse-way, on the line of which there are some traces of an encampment. The interest on £100, given by the Rev. William Fairfox, in 1761, is applied to tyhe instruction of poor childre.