WOLVEY, a parish in the Kirby division of the
hundred of KNIGHTLOW, county of WARWICK, 5 miles
(S. E. byE.) from Nuneaton, containing 851 inhabitants.
The living is a discharged vicarage, in the peculiar jurisdiction
of the Bishop of Lichfieldand Coventry, rated
in the king's books at £6. 6. .5., and in the alternate
patronage of the Representatives of the late Mr. Foster
and the Prebendary of Wolvey in the Cathedral Church
of Lichfield. The church, dedicated to St. John the Baptist,
contains a monument, five hundred years old, of the
Clinton family, formerly resident here. The river Anker
rises in the. parish.