OLDBURY, (Warwickshire) 1 m. from Henley in Arden, and 6 from Warwick, was heretofore a cell to the nunnery at Polesworth.
The Romans are supposed to have had a fort here, which contained 7 acres, enclosed with high ramparts. Several flints have
been ploughed up here, curiously ground in the form of a pole-ax, thought to be instruments of war, brought hither by the
Britons before the invention of other arms, because there are no flints found within 40 m. of it. K. Hen. VIII. gave the
nuns estate here to Cha. Brandon, D. of Suffolk, and his heirs; but it came at length to the crown, when K. Ja. I. granted
it in fee to Sir Edw. Stanhope and Edw. Littleworth; from whom it came to Rich. Whitehall, and from him by marriage to Mr.
Farmer.