Sow in 1843
Sow is in the county of the city of Coventry, about 3 or 4 miles east-north-east of Coventry : the parish extends into the Kirby division of Knightlow hundred, and has an area of 2,300 acres : the population, in 1831, was 1,414. The ribbon-manufacture gave employment to 100 men in this parish, and to above 90 in the neighbouring parish of Shilton (the area of which was 850 acres ; and the population, in 1831, 460), in the Kirby division of Knightlow hundred. There are considerable coal-works in Sow parish : the Oxford Canal passes through the midst of them. |