WATER-OVERTON, a chapelry in the parish of
ASTON, Birmingham division of the hundred of HEMLINGFORD,
county of WARWICK, 2 miles (N.W.) from
Coleshill. The population is returned with the parish.
The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry
of Coventry, and diocese of Lichfield and Coventry,
endowed with £200 private benefaction, and £200 royal
bounty, and in the patronage of EarlDigby. The church,
dedicated to St. Peter and St. Paul, has lately received
an addition of three hundred and sixty-six sittings, of
which three hundred and twenty are free, the Incorporated
Society for the enlargement of churches and
chapels having granted £380 towards defraying the
expense. The navigable river Medway bounds the parish
on the south, where it is crossed by a bridge.