PILLERTON-PRIORS, a parish in the Brails division
of the hundred of KINGTON, county of WARWICK,
4 miles (S. W. by W.) from Kington, containing
211 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, annexed
to the vicarage of Pillerton-Hersey, in the archdeaconry
and diocese of Worcester. The church, which
was dedicated to St. Mary Magdalene, was burnt down
in 1666. This place received the adjunct to its name
from having formerly belonged to Kenilworth priory.