Merevale Leicestershire Family History Guide
Merevale is an Ancient Parish partly in Leicestershire and partly in Warwickshire.
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Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1727
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1813
Nonconformists include: Presbyterian and Roman Catholic.
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Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
MEREVALE, a parish in the district of Atherstone and counties of Warwick and Leicester: on Watling street, the Terent Valley railway, the Coventry canal, and the river. Anker, and 1 mile W by S of Atherstone r. station. Post town, Atherstone. Acres of the Warwick portion, 1,100. Real property, £1, 690. Pop., 132. Houses, 29. Acres of the Leicester portion, 1,050. Pop., 80. Houses, 12. The property is divided among a few.
The manor, Merevale Hall, and all the Warwick portion, belong to W. S. Dugdale, Esq. The Hall was recently rebuilt; stands on an eminence about 400 feet above sea-level, commanding a fine view; and is surrounded by a beautiful park. A Cistertian abbey was founded here, in 1148, by Robert, Earl of Ferrers; and is now represented by the parish church, and by some interesting fragments and foundations of its other buildings.
The living is a donative in the diocese of Worcester. Value, £24. Patron, W. S. Dugdale, Esq. The church was the chapel at the gate of the abbey; contains three stone coffins, several ancient brasses, a fine alabaster tomb of Lord Ferrars, and monuments of the Stratfords and the Dugdales; and was recently in a very dilapidated condition.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
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Administration
- County: Leicestershire
- Civil Registration District: Atherstone
- Probate Court: Court of the Peculiar of the Manor of Merevale
- Diocese: Worcester
- Rural Deanery: Arden
- Poor Law Union: Atherstone
- Hundred: Sparkenhoe
- Province: Canterbury