SHILTON, a parish in the Kirby division of the
hundred of KNIGHTLOW, county of WARWICK, 5 miles
(N. E.) from Coventry, containing 396 inhabitants.
The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of
Coventry, and diocese of Lichfield and Coventry, endowed
with £800 royal bounty, and in the patronage
of the Crown. The church is dedicated to St. Andrew.
The Oxford canal crosses the southern portion of the
parish.