a town of the county of Warwick, in the parish of Wooton-Wawen and hundred of Bortichway, 105 miles from London. It stands in what was formerly the forest of Arden, and has a chapel of ease and a good market. The population amounted in 1801 to 1098, in 1811 to 1053, in 1821 to 1249, and in 1831 to 1214.