WASPERTON, a parish in the Warwick division of
the hundred of KINGTON, county of WARWICK, 4 miles
(S. S. W.) from Warwick, containing 271 inhabitants.
The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry
and diocese of Worcester, rated in the king's books at
£5, endowed with £200 private benefaction, and £200
royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Rector of
Hampton-Lucy. The church is dedicated to St. John
the Baptist. This parish is entitled to participate in
the benefit of the grammar school founded at Hampton-
Lucy by the Rev. Richard Hill.