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Preston Bagot, (in Doomsday written Prestone) a parish in Barlichway hundred, 2 miles from Henley-in-Arden, 7 miles from Stratford-on-Avon, and 101 from London. In 1803, the sum raised by its parochial rates was £351 9s. 9d. at 7s. in the pound. In 1811, its population was 210. In 1821, it contained 44 houses and 319 inhabitants. In 1826, it was valued at £1736, and its proportion to the county rate at £7 4s. 8d. The rectory is valued at £4.

Preston Bagot was, in the Conqueror’s time, the property of the Earl of Mellent, from whom it passed to his brother, Henry de Newburgh, Earl of Warwick, and afterwards sold by William Earl of Warwick, to Ingram Bagot, from whom it derived its name.

Source: The History Topography and Directory of Warwickshire 1830. Wm. West. Printed and Published by R. Wrightson, Athenaeum, New-Street; and sold by Baldwin and Craddock, and Hurst, Chance and Co., London. 1830.