ITCHINGTON (LONG), a parish in the Southam
division of the hundred of KNIGHTLOW, county of WARWICK,
2miles (N. by W.) from Southam, containing 836
inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry
of Coventry, and diocese of Lichfield and Coventry,
rated in the king's books at £7. 1. 8., and in the
patronage of Sir R. Newdigate, Bart, and Chandos Leigh,
Esq. The church is dedicated to the Holy Trinity. There
is an endowment of £ 10 per annum, the bequest of John
Bosworth, for teaching poor children. The Warwick
and Napton canal and the river Watergall run through
the parish. This was the birthplace of Wulfstan,
Bishop of Worcester, in 1062; and here, in 1575, -Queen
Elizabeth was entertained by Dudley, Earl of Leicester,:
when on her progress to Kenilworth.