Churchover

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Churchover
Warwickshire
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Village centre
Location
Grid reference: SP5180
Location: 52°25’11"N, 1°14’34"W
Data
Population: 251  (2011)
Post town: Rugby
Postcode: CV23
Dialling code: 01788
Local Government
Council: Rugby

Churchover is a small village and parish in the Knightlow hundred of Warwickshire. The population of the civil parish in the 2001 census was 230, increasing to 251 at the 2011 census.[1]

It is located around four miles north of Rugby, just west of the A426 road, and just north of the M6 motorway on the border with Leicestershire.

Holy Trinity church

Within the parish boundaries is Coton House, a mansion house dating from 1787.

The village contains the Holy Trinity Church which dates partly from the 15th century and is a Grade-II* listed building.[2]

A major gas compression station and a pipeline pigging and transfer compound, both part of the National transmission system, are located to the south-west of the village.

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