CHARLCOTE, a parish in the Warwick division of
the hundred of KINGTON, county of WARWICK, 6 miles
(N. W. by W.) from Kington, containing 331 inhabitants.
The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry
and diocese of Worcester, rated in the king's books at
£6, endowed with £200 private benefaction, and £400
royal bounty, and in the patronage of George Lucy,
Esq. The church is dedicated to St. Leonard. This
parish is bounded on the west by the river Avon, which,
on the south, receives the tributary stream Heile. The
mansion-house, of brick faced with stone, is a fine specimen
of the style of domestic architecture that prevailed
in the time of Elizabeth.