PACKINGTON (GREAT), a parish in the Solihull
division of the hundred of HEMLINGFORD, county of
WARWICK, 4 miles (S. E. by S.) from Coleshill, containing
351 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. 10. 2., and in the patronage of the Earl of Aylesford.
The church is dedicated to St. James.