RADFORD-SEMELE, a parish in the Kenilworth
division of the hundred of KNIGHTLOW, county of
WARWICK, 4 miles (E.) from Warwick, containing 472
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 £5. 16. 05.,
endowed with £200 royal bounty, and in the patronage
of H. G. Lewis, Esq. The church is dedicated to
St. Nicholas. The Warwick and Napton canal passes
through the parish.