Lapworth Warwickshire Family History Guide

Lapworth is an Ancient Parish in the county of Warwickshire.

Other places in the parish include: Kingswood.

Parish church: St. Mary

Parish registers begin:

Parish registers: 1561
Bishop’s Transcripts: 1613

Nonconformists include: Presbyterian and Society of Friends/Quaker.

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The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

LAPWORTH, a village and a parish in Solihull district, Warwick. The village stands near the Birmingham and Stratford canal, 2 miles WSW of Kingswood r. station, and 3¾ N by E of Henley-in-Arden; and has a post-office under Birmingham.

The parish includes also part of the hamlet of Kingswood. Acres, 2,971. Real property, £11,722; of which £6,400 are in the canal. Pop., 630. Houses, 148. The property is much subdivided. The manor belongs to P. W. Martin and R. Dolphin, Esqs. The parish is a meet for the North Warwickshire hounds.

The living is a rectory in the diocese of Worcester. Value, £428. Patron, Merton College, Oxford. The church is mainly decorated and later English, and has a very fine spire.

There are an endowed school and charities, with collectively £397 a-year.

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