HARTSHILL, a hamlet in the parish of MANCETTER,
Atherstone division of the hundred of HEMLINGFORD,
county of WARWICK, 3 miles (N.W. by W.)
from Nuneaton, containing 662 inhabitants. There is
an endowed school-in the township, also the remains of
an ancient castle. Michael Drayton, the poet, was born
here in 1563, and died in 1631.