Long Itchington Warwickshire Family History Guide

Long Itchington is an Ancient Parish in the county of Warwickshire. 

Other places in the parish include: Stoney Thorpe and Bascote. 

Parish church: Holy Trinity

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1653
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1653

Nonconformists include: Independent/Congregational

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

ITCHINGTON (LONG), a village and a parish in Southam district, Warwick. The village stands on the river Ichene or Watergall, near the Warwick and Napton canal, 2 miles NNW of Southam and 2 S of Marton r. station; and has a post office under Rugby.

The parish contains also the hamlets of Stoney-Thorpe and Bascote. Acres, 4,510. Real property, £8,636. Pop. in 1851, 1,216; in 1861, 1,150. Houses, 271. The property is subdivided. The manor belonged to the Odingsells; passed through several hands to Dudley Earl of Leicester, who here entertained Queen Elizabeth on her way to Kenilworth; and belongs now to Lord Leigh and the Earl of Aylesford. The parish is a meet for the Warwickshire hounds.

The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Worcester. Value, £210. Patron, J. D. Ellis, Esq., three turns, and Lord Leigh, one turn. The church is very ancient; consists of nave, S aisle, and chancel, with a tower; and was restored in 1866.

There are chapels for Independents and Primitive Methodists, a neat national school of 1855, and charities £31. St. Wulfstan was a native.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Parish Registers

Marriages Out of Parish

DetailsPlace of Marriage
John Hobley, p. Long Itchington, co. Warwick, & Elizabeth Edwards, of F. C, lic. 14 Sept. 1769Fenny Compton
John Cook, of F. C, & Mary Brothers, p Long Itchington, lic. 16 July 1787Fenny Compton
Thomas Cooper, p. Long-Itchington, co. Warwick, b., & Elizabeth Powell, of F. C, s. 12 Oct. 1807Fenny Compton
William Bradly, p. B., & Joan Yates, p. Itchington Longa 9 Nov. 1628Bourton on Dunsmore
Isaac Watts, p. Long Itchington, & Mary Poole, p. B. 30 Oct. 1797Bourton on Dunsmore
  

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Warwickshire, Long Itchington – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for Long Itchington, 1841-1891
Author: Great Britain. Census Office

England, Warwickshire, Long Itchington – Church records ( 4 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Long Itchington, 1653-1846
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Long Itchington (Warwickshire)

England, Gloucestershire, Thornbury, Wesleyan Methodist Circuit, Church records, 1841-1907
Author: Methodist Church. Thornbury Circuit (Thornbury, Gloucestershire); Downend Circuit (Gloucestershire : Wesleyan Methodist); Bristol Record Office (Gloucestershire)

Parish registers for Long Itchington, 1653-1972
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Long Itchington (Warwickshire); Warwickshire (England). County Record Office

Some parish register extracts from Bishops Itchington 1752-1840, Coventry 1745-1812, Long Itchington 1653-1850
Author: Gardner, David Ensign, 1915-2007

England, Warwickshire, Long Itchington – Church records – Indexes ( 2 )
Parish register printouts of Long Itchington, Warwick, England ; christenings, 1653-1812
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department

Parish register printouts of Long Itchington, Warwick, England ; christenings, 1813-1876
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department

Administration

  • County: Warwickshire
  • Civil Registration District: Southam
  • 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: Marton
  • Poor Law Union: Southam
  • Hundred: Knightlow
  • Province: Canterbury