BARCHESTON, (Warwickshire) a pretty village on the banks of the Stour, near Shipton, which bel. formerly to the Whitacres, and in the R. of Hen. VI. to the Durants, whose family held it, for several successions, 'till one of them sold it in the next R. to William Willington, of a Gloucestershire family, a rich merchant of the Staple; with one of whose daughters, it went, by marriage, to Mr. Shelden.