OFFCHURCH, a parish in the Kenilworth division
of the hundred of KNIGHTLOW, county of WARWICK,
5 miles (E. by N.) from Warwick, containing 337 inhabitants.
The living is a discharged vicarage, in the
archdeaconry of Coventry, and diocese of Lichfield and.
Coventry, rated in the king's books at £7 7. 6., endowed
with £200 private benefaction, and £200 royal
bounty. T. W. Knightley, Esq. was patron in 1805.
The church is dedicated to St. Gregory. The Warwick
and Napton canal intersects the old Roman Fosse-way
on the southern boundary of the parish. In the Anglo-
Saxon times this was a place of some importance, and
during the Octarchy, Offa, King of Mercia, made it
his residence.