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Arley, a parish and a village in Warwickshire, 6 miles W by S of Nuneaton, and 9 NNW of Coventry. The parish has a station (more than a mile S of the village), called Arley and Fillongley, on the M.R. It includes the hamlets of Ballard's Green and Divet's Green, and a place called Sloley Hill. Its post town is Coventry; money order office, Fillongley; telegraph office, at the railway station. Acreage, 1946; population, 216. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Worcester; value, £267. The church is ancient, and was restored in 1873. One of the windows in the chancel has specimens of very fine ancient painted glass; there is also in the chancel a perfect recumbent figure of a priest habited in Eucharistic vestments. There are the remains of the ambry and the piscina.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5

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