CALWICK, a township in the parish of ELLASTONE,
southern division of the hundred of TOTMONSLOW,
county of STAFFORD, 3 miles (S.W. by W.) from Ashbourn,
containing 120 inhabitants. A hermitage was
anciently established here, which was given to the priory
of Kenilworth before the year 1148, by Nicholas de
Greselei Fitz-Nigell, and a small convent of Black canons
placed therein. This house was given by Henry VIII.
to the monastery of Merton in Surrey, in exchange for
the manor of East Moulsey, as parcel of which it was
again granted by that monarch to John Fleetwood.