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