TANWORTH, a parish in the Warwick division of
the hundred of KINGTON, county of WARWICK, 4 miles
(N. W. by N.) from Henley in Arden, comprising the liberty
of Monks-Riding, and containing 1993 inhabitants.
The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry
and diocese of Worcester, rated in the king's books at
£6. 13. 4., endowed with£200 private benefaction, and
£200 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Earl of
Plymouth. The church is dedicated to St. Mary Magdalene.
The Stratford on Avon canal passes through
the parish. Two charity schools, attended by eighty
children, are supported out of the proceeds of several
charitable bequests, amounting to £ 80 per annum.