Cherington Warwickshire Family History Guide

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Cherington is an Ancient Parish in the county of Warwickshire.

Alternative names: Cherrington

Parish church: St. John the Baptist

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1538
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1608

Nonconformists include: Roman Catholic

Adjacent Parishes

Cherington 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.

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

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

Cherington, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1947

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

Parish History

Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales Circa 1870

CHERINGTON, a parish in Shipston-on-Stour district, Warwick; on the river Stour, 3½ miles SE of Shipston-on-Stour, and 6 E by N of Moreton r. station. It has a post-office under Shipston-on-Stour. Acres, 890. Real property, £1,965. Pop., 311. Houses, 77. The property is divided among a few. The manor belonged, in the time of Henry III., to Ralph de Wylington; and passed, in the time of Edward III., to the Lucys. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Worcester. Value, £259. Patron, D. Turner, Esq. The church is very good; and has a tower.

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

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848

CHERRINGTON (St. John the Baptist), a parish, in the union of Shipston-upon-Stour, Brailes division of the hundred of Kington, S. division of the county of Warwick, 4 miles (S. E.) from Shipston; containing 340 inhabitants.

In the 52nd of Henry III., Ralph de Wylington held the manor by the service of a knight’s fee, of the Earl of Warwick, as of the manor of Brailes. It was the property of Sir William Lucy early in the reign of Edward III.; from which time it continued to his descendants.

The area of the parish is 808a. 1r. 22p. A tributary of the Stour runs through from east to west. The living is a rectory, valued in the king’s books at £11. 10. 7½. net income, £259; patron, Daniel Turner, Esq. The tithes were commuted for land and money payments in 1805.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848

Maps

Vision of Britain historical maps

Administration

  • County: Warwickshire
  • Civil Registration District: Shipston on Stour
  • Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Worcester (Episcopal Consistory)
  • Diocese: Worcester
  • Rural Deanery: Kineton
  • Poor Law Union: Shipston on Stour
  • Hundred: Kington
  • Province: Canterbury