a small town of the hundred of Knightlow, in the county of Warwick, eighty-one miles from London. It is situated on what was once a heath, celebrated for an ancient legend of the Dun Cow, some of whose bones are still affirmed to be preserved there. The inhabitants amounted in 1801 to 1087, in 1811 to 789, in 1821 to 947, and in 1831 to 1029.