FARNBOROUGH, a parish in the Burton-Dassett
division of the hundred of KINGTON, county of WARWICK,
6 miles (E. by S.) from Kington, containing 356
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 £5. 12., endowed
with £200 private benefaction, and £200 royal
bounty. W. Holbeche, Esq. was patron in 1812. The
church is dedicated to St. Botolph. John Freckleton,
about 1764, bequeathed property for the benefit of the
poorof Aston, Cleydon, Dasset, and Farnborough; and
in 1812, Viscount Andover left £ 100, producing together
an income of about £42, which is applied to the education
of seventy children of these parishes. The Oxford
canal enters the county at the northern boundary of the
parish.