STOCKTON, a parish in the Southam division of
the hundred of KNIGHTLOW, county of WARWICK, 2
miles (N. E. by E.) from Southam, containing 344 inhabitants.
The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry
of Coventry, and diocese of Lichfield and Coventry,
rated in the king's books at £10. 7. 1., and in the
patronage of the Warden and Fellows of New College,
Oxford. The church is dedicated to St. Michael. The
Warwick and Napton canal passes in the vicinity.
The Rev. Charles Crane, in 1807, gave a house towards
the support of a school, in which fifty children are
instructed for £12 a year, arising from the church
lands.