Arrow. – Standing near the river of the same name, is a parish in the hundred of Balichway, 2 miles from Alcester and 105 from London. In 1803 the sum raised by its parochial rates was £345 12s. 1½d. In 1811 its population was 250. In 1821 it contained 56 houses and 290 inhabitants. In 1826 it was valued at £3252. and its proportion to the county rate, £3 11s. It is a rectory, value £10 10s. 7½d. Patron, the Marquis of Hertford.
This manor was in the possession of the family of Burdetts from Edward I. to Henry VIII. when it was disputed between John Burdett and a female heir, married to John Conway. It was determined by arbitration in favour of Edward Conway, whose descendant, Edward Earl of Conway, dying without issue, bequeathed the estate, about 1684, to Popham Seymour, Esq. on condition that he should take the name of Conway, and from whom descended the Marquis of Hertford.
Source: The History Topography and Directory of Warwickshire 1830. Wm. West. Printed and Published by R. Wrightson, Athenaeum, New-Street; and sold by Baldwin and Craddock, and Hurst, Chance and Co., London. 1830.
