WASPERTON, (Warwickshire) on the Avon, a little below Barford, bel. to the monks of Coventry till the Diss. when Hen. VIII. granted it to Will. Whorwood,his solicitor-general, Will. Walter, and their heirs; and by the marriage of a daughter of Sir William Walter (whose ancestor had purchased Whorwood's interest) to Sir Simon Fanshaw, it came into his family; but was conveyed in the last century to Sir Tho. Rawlinson.