FRANKTON, a parish in the Rugby division of the hundred of KNIGHTLOW, county of WARWICK, 4 miles (w. by S.) from Dunchurch, containing 253 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Coventry, and diocese of Lichfield and Coventry, rated in the king's books at £5. 12.1. The Rev. John Biddulph was patron in 1805. The church isdedicated to St. Nicholas.