Warwickshire
 

Bablake Hospital
Bonds Hospital
Coleshill Almshouses
Fords Hospital
Hospital of St Cross
Lingard House
Lycester Hospital
Rugby Almshouses
Josiah Mason Almshouses
Stratford Almshouses

Stratford Upon Avon

There are almshouses in Church Street, founded by Edward VI for 12 poor men and 12 women, and vested in the charity trustees, and 4 others in Guild Street, built and endowed by the late Miss Newland.

Coleshill (Meriden Union)

There are almshouses for two Men and two Widows, founded by Richard Chapman and William Harvey.

Bourton on the Hill (Shipston on Stour Union)

The 40 acres allotted at inclosure in 1821 for fuel for the poor  ⁵⁴  were rented in 1828 and the money was used to buy coal;  ⁵⁵  in the 1950's when the land produced £40 the money was still used to buy coal. In 1962 the land was sold and the Help in Need Charity was set up from the proceeds of the sale. The new charity while retaining the object of providing coal was intended to have a wider application, including the upkeep of the parish almshouses.  ⁵⁶

 In 1831 the rector, Samuel Wilson Warneford gave two sums of £3,024 and £227 stock and four houses for the establishment of four almshouses, called The Retreat, for two widows and two widowers. By 1959 the annual income of £86 was inadequate for the upkeep of the almshouses which received grants in that year, from the Dulverton Trust and from the Rural District Council, for modernization.  ⁵⁷

^{Notes :- 
54         Glos. R.O., Q/RI 28.
55         21st Rep. Com. Char. 214.
56         Char. Com. files.
57         Ibid.}

Source:
Quoted from the Victoria County History, Gloucestershire, volume 6, page 206, by permission of the General Editor.
Submitted by Alan Longbottom