WOLSTAN, a parish partly in the Kirby, but chiefly
in the Rugby, division of the hundred of KNIGHTLOW,
county of WARWICK, 5 miles (E. S. B.) from Coventry,
containing, with the hamletsof Brandon with Bretsford,
and Marston, 941 inhabitants. . The living is a vicarage,
in the archdeaconry of Coventry, and diocese of Lichfield
and Coventry, rated in the king's books at & 15.10.,
and in the patronage of Lady Scott. The church, dedicated
to St. Margaret, is a large cruciform structure.
There is a place of worship for Baptists. An Alien
priory, a cell to the abbey of St.. Peter super Divam in
Normandy, was founded here soon after the Conquest,
and, at its suppression, granted by Richard II. to the
Carthusian priory at Coventry. On the southern bank
of the Avon are vestiges of a Roman encampment.