BADDESLEY-ENSOR, a parish in the Tamworth division of the hundred of HEMLINGFORD, county of WARWICK, 3 miles (W. N. W.) from Atherstone, containing 535 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of Coventry, and diocese of Lichfield and Coventry, endowed with £ 1200 royal bounty, and £200 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of the Parishioners of Polesworth. The church is dedicated to St. Michael. There are some co'al mines in the neighbourhood. George Abbott, in 1647, bequeathed a rent-charge of £5 in support' of a free school.