OLDBURY, a hamlet in the parish of MANCETTER,
Atherstone division of the hundred of HEMLINGFORD,
county of WARWICK, 4 miles (N. W. by W.) fromJNuneaton,
containing 79 inhabitants. Here was a sma
nunnery of the Dominican order, dedicated to St. .Lawrence,
and subordinate to Pollesworth; it is saia
have been founded by Walter de Hastings and Athawis
his wife, and at the dissolution possessed a revenue of
£6. 0. 10.