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Rowington, - (in Doomsday written Rochington, from its rocky site) a parish in Barlichway hundred, 5 miles N.N.W. from Warwick, and 95 from London. In 1803, the sum raised by parochial rates, including Kingswood, was £727 5s. at 5s. in the pound. In 1811, it contained 152 houses and 860 inhabitants. In 1821 it contained 176 houses and 888 inhabitants. In 1826, it was valued at £4636, and its proportion to the county rate was £19 6s. 4d. It is a vicarage, value £7 11s. 8d.

Dugdale states it to contain “three hides, having a church and woods belonging thereto, then esteemed at one mile in length and half a mile and eight furlongs in breadth.” Queen Elizabeth granted this lordship to Ambrose Dudley, Earl of Warwick.

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.