Allesley, a village and a parish in Warwickshire, 2 1/2 miles NW of Coventry, under which there is a post office; money order and telegraph office, Coventry. Acreage of the parish, 4257; population, 910. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Worcester; net value, £565. The church was originally a chapel belonging to the priory of Coventry; it was restored and enlarged in 1863. There is an endowed school. Allesley Hall, a country seat, is in this parish. At Eastern Green, a little to the SW, which was formed into an ecclesiastical parish in 1876, is a handsome church with a spire, built in 1875. The living is a vicarage in the gift of the rector of Allesley ; net value, £198.