Willoughby, Warwickshire - Old Vicarage - local postcard c.1980s

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• Picture / Image:  Willoughby Old Vicarage [Warwickshire]
• Publisher: Warwickshire Federation of Women's Institutes
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Willoughby is a village and civil parish about 5 miles (8 km) south of Rugby, Warwickshire, England. The village is about 4.5 miles (7 km) northwest of Daventry in neighbouring Northamptonshire and the eastern boundary of the parish forms part of the county boundary.

Willoughby's toponym is derived from Old Norse Viligbýr meaning "willow farmstead".[citation needed]

The parish is bounded to the south by the River Leam and to the west by one of its tributaries. The village is just west of the main road between Daventry and Coventry, now the A45 road.

The 2011 Census recorded a parish population of 398.[1]

Willoughby has had a parish church certainly since 1215 and probably before.[citation needed] The font has Early English Gothic carvings on its rim[3] and dates from 1230.[citation needed] Thurstan had granted the advowson to the Hospital of St John the Baptist by 1246.[2] However, the present Church of England parish church of Saint Nicholas is a Perpendicular Gothic building[3] dating entirely from the early part of the 16th century.[2] It has north and south aisles and arcades with characteristically late-Perpendicular four-centred arches.[3] The chancel was later rebuilt in brick, probably early in the 19th century.[3] St Nicholas' is a Grade II* listed building.[4]

The tower has a clock that may date from early in the 17th century.[2] It has also a ring of six bells.[5] Joseph Smith of Edgbaston[6] cast five of them in 1713;[5] William Chapman of the Whitechapel Bell Foundry cast the tenor bell in 1781.[5]

St Nicholas' parish is now part of a single benefice with the parishes of Flecknoe, Grandborough, Leamington Hastings and Birdingbury.[7]