ITCHINGTON (BISHOPS), a parish comprising
the hamlets of Upper and Lower Itchington, in the
Southam division of the hundred of KNIGHTLOW, and
the chapelries of Chadshunt and Gaydon, in the Kington
division of the hundred of KINGTON, county of WARWICK,
8 miles (S.W.) from Southam, and containing
430 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, in the peculiar
jurisdiction of the Prebendary of Colwich and Bishop's
Itchington in the Cathedral Church of Lichfield,
rated in the king's books at £ 10, and in the patronage
of the Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry. The Precentor
of -Lichfield cathedral is rector of this parish, and
was entitled to the presentation to the vicarage until
1796, when, by virtue of an act of parliament, it was
transferred to the Bishop, with the right of presentation
to other livings also. The church, dedicated to All
Saints, stood in Lower, or Bishop's, Itchington, but
there are now no traces of it, and the chapel in Upper
Itchington,- dedicated to St. Michael, is now used as
the parish church. The Itchen, a small stream, rises
in the parish, the substratum of which is chiefly a blue
limestone: