Warmingham St Leonard Cheshire Family History Guide
Warmingham St Leonard is an Ancient Parish in the county of Cheshire.
Other places in the parish include: Moston, Tetton, and Elton.
Alternative names: Arlescote
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1538
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1570’s
Nonconformists include: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Primitive Methodist, and Wesleyan Methodist.
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Adjacent Parishes
Warmingham Parish Registers
Search online registers of baptisms, marriages, banns and burials including digitised images of original records and registers and indexed transcriptions.
Baptism, Marriage and Burial Records
These records include images of Church of England parish registers of baptism, marriage, and burial records.
Warmingham St. Leonard, Cheshire Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812
Warmingham St Leonard, Cheshire Church of England Baptisms, 1813-2012
Warmingham St Leonard, Cheshire Church of England Bishop’s Transcripts – Baptisms – 1801-1881
Marriage and Banns Records
These records include images of Church of England parish registers of marriages and banns records.
Warmingham St Leonard, Cheshire Church of England Marriages and Banns 1754-1952
Death and Burial Records
These records include images of Church of England parish registers of deaths and burial records.
Warmingham St Leonard, Cheshire Church of England Burials 1813-1980
Warmingham St Leonard, Cheshire Church of England Bishop’s Transcripts – Burials, 1801-1881
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
WARMINGHAM, a township in Nantwich district, and a parish partly also in Congleton district, Cheshire. The township lies 1¾ mile W of Sandbach r. station, and has a post-office under Sandbach. Acres, 2,028. Real property, £3,228. Pop., 358. Houses, 71.
The parish contains three other townships, and comprises 4,730 acres. Pop., 1,205. Houses, 238. The property is divided among a few. There are brass and iron foundries, an agricultural-implement manufactory, extensive bone-works, and extensive brick and tile yards. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Chester. Value, £650. Patron, Lord Crewe. The church was rebuilt in 1797. There are two Wesleyan chapels, an endowed school with £21 a year, and charities £10.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Historical Maps
British National Grid Ref: SJ 70899 61072
BNG Eastings, Northings: 370899, 361072
Latitude, Longitude: 53.145987, -2.436541
View detailed 19th-century Ordnance Survey maps from the National Library of Scotland Maps – includes OS 25 inch 1892-1918 maps, a vast range of other historical OS maps and land use maps. These maps reveal old street layouts, parish boundaries, and landmarks long since vanished.
Alan Godfrey Old Ordnance Survey Maps
The full range of Cheshire maps produced by Alan Godfrey are available in the Cheshire Maps section of the Books & Maps area. There you can search by principal villages and parishes, by key features for town and city plans, and sort the maps by type and scale. Coverage is taken from the places listed in Alan Godfrey’s own map descriptions, although smaller parishes may not be explicitly named. View all the Cheshire & District Alan Godfrey Maps.
Administration
- County: Cheshire
- Civil Registration District: Nantwich
- Probate Court: Pre-1541 – Court of the Bishop of Lichfield (Episcopal Consistory), Post-1540 – Court of the Bishop of Chester (Episcopal Consistory)
- Diocese: Pre-1541 – Lichfield and Coventry, Post-1540 – Chester
- Rural Deanery: Middlewich
- Poor Law Union: Nantwich
- Hundred: Northwich
- Province: York
County Maps
The Godfrey Edition reprints of Old Ordnance Survey Maps are invaluable for historians and genealogists. Many are taken from the highly detailed 1:2500 plans, reprinted at about 14 inches to the mile, showing individual houses, railways, factories, churches, mills, canals. Each map includes historical notes on the area. Alongside these large‑scale sheets, Alan Godfrey also publishes the smaller‑scale Inch‑to‑the‑Mile series, and a range of maps based on the OS five‑foot plans.
