PACKWOOD, a parish in the Warwick division
of the hundred of KINGTON, county of WARWICK, 4
miles (N. N. E.) from Henley in Arden, containing 279
inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the
peculiar jurisdiction of the Manorial Court of Packwood,
endowed with £400 private benefaction, and
£800 royal bounty/ and in the patronage of Earl Cornwallis.
The church is dedicated to St. Giles. The
Stratford on Avon canal passes through the parish.