Hampton in Arden, Warwickshire Family History Guide
Hampton in Arden is an Ancient Parish in the county of Warwickshire. Temple Balsall is a chapelry of Hampton in Arden.
The parish includes also the hamlets of Kinwalsey, Knowle, Balsall, Nuthurst and Nuthurst cum Hockley Heath.
Status: Ancient Parish
Parish church: St. Mary and St. Bartholomew
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1599; Separate registers exist for Nuthurst beginning 1835
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1665; Separate records exist for Nuthurst beginning 1835
Nonconformists include: Independents
Fairs & Markets: Fairs, June 11, July 16, Sep. 10, Oct. 17. Market, Monday
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Adjacent Parishes
- Berkswell
- Meriden
- Fillongley
- Elmdon
- Lapworth
- Barston
- Beaudesert
- Great Packington
- Tanworth
- Bickenhill
- Solihull
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
HAMPTON-IN-ARDEN, a village in Meriden district, and a parish partly also in Solihull district, Warwick. The village stands on the river Blythe, contiguous to the Hampton Junction station of the Northwestern and Midland railways, 9¼ miles SE by E of Birmingham; occupies a rising ground; was once a market town; and has a post office under Birmingham, and fairs on 9 June, 21 July, 8 Sept, and 15 Oct. Pop., 690. Houses, 150.
The parish includes also the hamlets of Kinwalsey, Knowle, Balsall, and Nuthurst. Acres, 11, 052. Real property, £22, 224. Pop., 3, 161. Houses, 735. The property is much subdivided.
The manor belongs to the Right Hon. Frederick Peel. A tunnel of the Northwestern railway, 300 yards long, is near. The parish is a meet for the North Warwick hounds.
The living is a vicarage, united with the chapelry of Nuthurst, in the diocese of Worcester. Value, £578. Patron, W.Alston, Esq. The church is ancient; belonged to the canons of Kenilworth; has features of Saxon or of early Norman; and consists of a chancel and three aisles, with a low tower.
The vicarage of Knowle is a separate benefice.
There are an Independent chapel, and a charity founded, in 1690, by George Fentham, and now yielding about £400 a year.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales 1850
Hampton-in-Arden, 3 miles N.E. Solihull. P. 3306
Source: Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales; Second Edition; C. W. Leonard, London; 1850.
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
HAMPTON-IN-ARDEN (St. Mary and St. Bartholomew), a parish, partly in the union of Meriden, and partly in that of Solihull, Solihull division of the hundred of Hemlingford, N. division of the county of Warwick, 9½ miles (W. by N.) from Coventry; containing, with the chapelries of Balsall and Knowle, and the hamlets of Kinwalsey and Nuthurst, 3306 inhabitants, of whom 781 are in the township of Hampton.
The parish comprises 11,172 acres, of which 2310 are in the township; the soil is generally a mixture of marl and clay, and the surface undulated: the village is built on an elevation. The river Blythe, and the Birmingham and Warwick canal, pass through the parish; it is also intersected at its southern extremity, by the road from Birmingham to Warwick, and the Birmingham and Derby railway diverges from the line of the London and Birmingham near the village, where is a convenient station.
A charter for a weekly market and an annual fair, was granted in the reign of Henry III.
The living is a vicarage, valued in the king’s books at £15. 6. 8.; net income, £578; patrons and impropriators, the Master and Brethren of the Earl of Leicester’s Hospital, Warwick. The tithes were commuted for land and a money payment in 1796. The church was built in the reign of Henry II., and had formerly a lofty spire, which was destroyed by lightning in 1643. George Fentham, in 1690, bequeathed property for instruction, the annual proceeds of which are about £200: it will ultimately yield a much larger income.
Balsall and Knowle form separate incumbencies: at Nuthurst was an ancient chapel, on the site of which a chapel of ease has been built, chiefly at the expense of E. Bolton King, Esq. There is a small place of worship for Independents.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
Parish Records
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Directories
Hampton in Arden Bennett’s Business Directory for Warwickshire, 1914
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Administration
- County: Warwickshire
- Civil Registration District: Meriden
- Probate Court: Pre-1837 – Court of the Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry (Episcopal Consistory), Post-1836 – Court of the Bishop of Worcester (Episcopal Consistory)
- Diocese: Worcester
- Rural Deanery: Arden
- Poor Law Union: Meriden
- Hundred: Hemlingford
- Province: Canterbury