Arley Warwickshire Family History Guide

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Arley is an Ancient Parish in the county of Warwickshire.

Other places in the parish include: Sloley Hill.

Parish church: St Wilfred

Parish registers begin: 1557

Nonconformists include:

Adjacent Parishes

Arley Parish Registers

These records, which span both Warwickshire and Worcestershire archives, include digitized records of baptisms, marriages, banns, and burials including images and indexed transcriptions.

Baptism, Marriage and Burial Records

Arley Warwickshire Church of England Baptisms Marriages and Burials 1535-1812

Arley, Worcestershire Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812

Arley Warwickshire Church of England Baptisms 1813-1910

Arley, Worcestershire Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1812-1922

Marriage and Banns Records

Arley Warwickshire Church of England Marriages and Banns 1754-1910

Arley, Worcestershire Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1947

Death and Burial Records

Arley Warwickshire Church of England Burials 1813-1910

Arley, Church of England Deaths and Burials, 1813-1997

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

ARLEY, a parish in Nuneaton district, Warwick; on the Birmingham and Leicester railway, with a r. station, 6 miles W by S of Nuneaton. It includes a place called Sloley Hill; and its Post Town is Fillongley under Coventry. Acres, 1,929. Real property, £3,366. Pop., 230. Houses, 56. The property is much subdivided. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Worcester. Value, £351. Patron, the Rev. Roger R. Vaughton. The church is good; and there are charities £36.

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

Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales 1850

Arley, 5 miles E. Coleshill. P. 265.

Source: Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales; Second Edition; C. W. Leonard, London; 1850.

The Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales 1840

ARLEY, a parish in the Kirby division of the hund. of Knightlow, union of Nuneaton, Warwickshire; 6 miles west by south from Nuneaton. Living, a rectory, formerly in the archd. of Coventry and dio. of Lichfield and Coventry, now in the dio. of Worcester; rated at £9 0s. 7d.; gross income £407. Patron, in 1835, the Rev. R. B. Vaughton.

There is a free school here endowed by William Avery. The annual income is £15; attendance 30. Other charities connected with the parish produce £19 13s. yearly. Pop., in 1801, 254; in 1831, 270 Houses 57. Acres 2,130. A. P. £2,391. Poor rates, in 1837, £139

Source: The Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales; A Fullarton & Co. Glasgow; 1840.

Maps

National Library of Scotland Maps – includes OS 25 inch 1892-1918 maps, a vast range of other historical OS maps and land use maps

Vision of Britain Historical Maps – includes topographic maps, boundary maps and land use maps

Administration

  • County: Warwickshire
  • Civil Registration District: Nuneaton
  • Probate Court: Court of the Dean and Chapter of Lichfield (Cathedral)
  • Diocese: Worcester
  • Rural Deanery: Arden
  • Poor Law Union: Nuneaton
  • Hundred: Knightlow
  • Province: Canterbury