Kineton, Warwickshire

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Kineton is a hamlet in Warwickshire

Other current and historical names

Location and coordinates are for the approximate centre of Kineton within this administrative area. Geographic features and populated places may cross administrative borders.

Kineton in historic gazetteers

Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). John Bartholomew

Kineton.-- (or Kington), market town, par., and township, with ry. sta., Warwickshire, 6 miles W. of Fenny Compton sta. and 11 miles SE. of Stratford-on-Avon - par., 3810 ac., pop. 1269; town and township, pop. 1053; P.O., T.O. Market-day, Tuesday. King John kept his court in a castle here; and the place was the quarters of the Parliamentarians on the night before the battle of Edgehill.

Kineton in the Domesday Book

A village in Fexhole hundred, in the county of Warwickshire.

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