a market-town of the county of Warwick, in the hundred of Kington, eighty-four miles from London, situated at the foot of Edgchill, where a battle was fought between Charles the First and the parliament army. The market is held on Tuesday. The inhabitants amounted in 1801 to 779, in 1811 to 800, in 1821 to 782, and in 1831 to 820, making, with the annexed chapelry of Combrook, 1102.