CHILVERS-COTON, a parish in the Atherstone
division of the hundred of HEMLINGFORD, county of
WARWICK, f of a mile (S. W.) from Nuneaton, containing
2169 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage,
in the archdeaconry of Coventry, and diocese of
Lichfield and Coventry, rated in the king's books at'
£7.4., endowed with £1400 parliamentary grant, and
in the patronage of the Chancellor of the diocese. The
church is dedicated to All Saints. There is a place of
worship for Wesleyan Methodists. The manufacture of
ribands is carried on extensively here, and there are
some coal-works in the parish: the Coventry canalpasses
through it. In the reign of Henry II. Ralph de
Sudley founded an Augustine priory at Erdbury, in this
parish, In honour of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the revenue
of which, at the dissolution, was £122. 8. 6.