ALVESTON, a parish in the Snitterfield division of the hundred of BARLICHWAY, county of WARWICK, 2 miles (E. N. E.) from Stratford, containing 630 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Worcester, rated in the king's books at £6, and in the patronage of the Rector of Hampton-Iaicy. The church is dedicated to St. James.