OFCHURCH, (Warwickshire) to the N. W. of Southam, where Offa, the Mercian K. is said to have had a palace, was formerly
given to the priory of Coventry but after the Diss. was given to Sir Edm. Knightley, in whose family it remained in 1640;
but the last of it left it by will to John Wightwick, who inherited it in 1688, on condition of assuming the name of
Knightley.