DUDSTON, (Warwickshire) near Birmingham, in the road to Staffordshire, is an ancient village that takes its name from
Dodo, or Dud, its original Ld. It was afterwards the estate of the Ailesburys, and then of the Holts, whose descendant,
Sir Thomas Holt, Bt. was Ld. of it in 1640. The place, besides its hall and park, is of little note now, but for a
cockpit.