WHITACRE (OVER), a parish in the Atherstone
division of the hundred of HEMLINGFORD, county of
WARWICK, 3 miles (E.N.E.) from Coleshill, containing
292 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the
archdeaconry of Coventry, and diocese of Lichfield and
Coventry, endowed with £400 private benefaction, and
£400 royal bounty, and in the patronage of Earl Howe.
The church is dedicated to St. Leonard. Six poor
children are educated for the interest of £40, bequeathed
by the .Rev. Thomas Morrall, in 1740.