STOCKINGFORD is an outlying portion of the borough of Nuneaton, and ecclesiastical parish, formed Oct. 13, 1843, from the civil parish of Nuneaton, with a station about 2 miles west of Nuneaton on the Birmingham and Leicester branch of the London, Midland and Scottish railway; the village is within the civil parish of Nuneaton, rural deanery of Atherstone and archdeaconry and diocese of Coventry. The church of St. Paul is a plain structure of brick, erected by the Commissioners for Building Churches in 1824, and consists of chancel, nave and a low western tower containing a clock and one bell: the church was re-seated in 1897, at a cost of £930: a stained glass window was placed in the east side in memory of those who fell in the Great War, 1914-18: there are 550 sittings, all being free. The register, baptisms and burials, dates from 1824; marriages, 1854- The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £500, including glebe, with residence, in the gift of the vicar of Nuneaton, and held since 1927 by the Rev. Francis Josiah Pratt M.A. of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. The Methodist chapel, on Arbury road, was erected in 1881, at a cost of £800, and a school has since been added. There is a Congregational chapel in Croft road, erected in 1907, with 500 sittings, and a Mission church in Croft road. There are several collieries. There is a recreation ground here, covering 9 acres. The manufacture of blue bricks, paving tiles and drain pipes is carried on to a considerable extent. The manorial rights are divided. The principal landowners are Charles William Tomkinson esq. D.L., .T.P. and William Francis Stratford Dugdale esq. D.L., J.P.. The soil is clay and heavy loam ; subsoil, clay and gravel. The chief crops are wheat, barley, oats and peas. The population in 1931 was 12,139.

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