Stockton, Warwickshire
Stockton is a
village and
civil parish, in the
Stratford-on-Avon district of
Warwickshire,
England. In the 2001 census it had a population of 1,391.
Stockton is located just to the east of the
A426 road around two miles north-east of
Southam, and around eight miles south-west of
Rugby.
Stockton's name was first recorded in
1272, the name meaning 'a fenced enclosure'. The village grew up mostly from the
19th century as an industrial village, housing workers for the local
cement industry. The now closed
Nelson Cement Works made cement from
blue lias clay, which was quarried locally. Just to the north of the village is the
Grand Union Canal, which served the cement works.
In
1898 a large
fossil was found locally of an
Ichthyosaurus, which is now at the
Natural History Museum in London.
Stockton was once served by the former
Weedon to
Leamington Spa railway line, and its station was called
Stockon & Napton (referring to
Napton-on-the-Hill which was about 1.5 miles away), but this was closed long ago.
Warwickshire Towns & Villages, by Geoff Allen (2000) ISBN 185058642x
There is a post office and general store within the village
