CHESTERTON, a parish in the Warwick division of the hundred of KINGTON, county of WARWICK, 5 miles (N. byE:) from Kington, containing, with the hamlet of Kington, or Little Chesterton, 231 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of Coventry, and diocese of Lichfield and Coventry, endowed with £400 private benefaction, and £600 royal bounty, and in the patronage of Lord Willoughby de Broke. The church is dedicated to St. Giles. Here are the remains of an extensive Roman fortification, that gave name to Chesterton, which was once a populous town, situated on the line of the Roman Fosse-way.