WARMINGTON, a parish in the Burton-Dassett
division of the hundred of KINGTON, county of WARWICK,
5 miles (N. W. by N.) from Banbury, containing,
with the township of Arlescote, 437 inhabitants. The
living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Coventry,
and diocese of Lichfield and Coventry, rated in the
king's books at £16.3. 1]., and in the patronage of
Mrs. Farrer. The church is dedicated to St. Nicholas.
There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists.
A Benedictine priory, subordinate to the abbey of St.
Peter and St. Paul de Pratellis, or Preaux, in Normandy,
was founded here in the time of Henry I., which,
after the suppression of Alien houses, was granted by
Henry VI. to the Carthusian priory at Witham in Somersetshire.
Nadbury camp, in this vicinity, where some
fix the ancient Tripontium, is of a square form, rounded
at the angles, and comprises about twelve acres.