WILNECOTE, a chapelry in that part of the parish
of TAMWORTH which is in the Tamworth division of the
hundred of HEMLINGFORD, county of WARWICK, 2
miles (S. E. by S.) from Tamworth, containing, with the
hamlet of Dosthill, 653 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual
curacy, with that of Tamworth, in the archdeaconry
of Coventry, and diocese of Lichfield and Coventry,
endowed with £1000 royal bounty, and £1200 parliamentary
grant. The chapel, dedicated to the Holy
Trinity, has lately received an addition of four hundred
and eighty-two sittings, of which four hundred and fifty
are free, the Incorporated Society for the enlargement
of churches and chapels having granted £300 towards
defraying the expense. Collieries and brick and lime
kilns have been established in this chapelry of late years.