OVERSLEY, (Warwickshire) in the p. of Arrow, not far from Coughton, had a chapel, which with its tithes was given to the
mon. of Alcester. The manor bel. anciently to the Nevils, the Gascoigns (one of whose descendants, Tho. Wentworth, E. of
Strafford, was Baron of Oversley) and to the Ld. Cromwel; upon whose attainder by Hen. VIII. it was granted to Sir Geo.
Throckmorton, and his heirs.