CURDWORTH, a parish in the Birmingham division
of the hundred of HEMLINGFORD, county of WARWICK,
3 miles (N. W. byN.) from Coleshill, containing,
with the township of Minworth, 555 inhabitants. The
living is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Coventry,
and diocese of Lichfield and Coventry, rated in the
king's books at £ 5, and in the patronage of the Rev.
W. Wakefield and C. B. Adderley, Esq. The church is
dedicated to St. Nicholas. The Birmingham and
Fazely canal passes through this parish, and is conducted
under a short tunnel near the village.