TACHBROOK (BISHOP'S), a parish partly in the
Kenilworth division of the hundred of KNIGHTLOW,
but chiefly in the Warwick division of the hundred of
KINGTON, county of WARWICK, 3 miles (S. E.) from
Warwick, containing, with the hamlet of Tachbrook-
Mallory, 654 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, in
the peculiar jurisdiction of the Prebendary of Tachbrook
in the Cathedral Church of Lichfield, rated in the king's
books at £5. 13.4., and in the patronage of the Bishop
of Lichfield and Coventry. The church is dedicated to
St. Chad. A school was erected and endowed, in 1771,
by subscription of Sir William Bagot, the Earl of Warwick,
and others, in which about one hundred children
are instructed on the National system; the income is
£39 per annum, with a good house and garden for the
master.