Combe Fields Warwickshire Family History Guide

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Combe Fields is an extra-parochial place.

Status: Extra-parochial; Civil Parish after 1858

Alternative names: Combe Abbey, Comb Abbey, Combefields, Smite

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: see surrounding parishes
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: see surrounding parishes

Nonconformists include:

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

COMBE-FIELDS, or Combe-Abbey, a quondam extra-parochial tract, now a parish, in Rugby district, Warwick; near the Oxford canal and the Fosse way, 3½ miles WSW of Stretton r. station, and 5 E of Coventry. Post town, Brinklow, under Coventry. Acres, 4,210. Real property, £6,167. Pop., 177. Houses, 37.

A Cistertian abbey was founded here in 1150, by Richard de Camville; was given, at the dissolution, to the Earl of Warwick; and passed to Robert Kelway, Lord Harrington, and to the ancestor of the Earl of Craven.

Combe-Abbey mansion, the Earl of Craven’s seat, was built on the abbey-ruins by Lord Harrington; has undergone changes and extensions; retains parts of the ancient cloisters, in Norman architecture; exhibits mainly Tudor features; includes a front, said to be after a design by Inigo Jones; stands in a park of about 500 acres; and Contains a rich collection of pictures.

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

Bankrupts

Ivens Martin, Comb-fields, Warwickshire, sheep salesman, Sept. 18, 1827.

Below is a list of people that were declared bankrupt between 1820 and 1843 extracted from The Bankrupt Directory; George Elwick; London; Simpkin, Marshall and Co.; 1843.

Parish Registers

Marriage Allegations

The following people have been recorded in the Hampshire Allegations for Marriage Licences granted by the Bishop of Winchester 1689 to 1837.

MILLER, George, of Combe, co. Warwick, gent., 21, b., & Hannah Poore, of Andover, 21, sp., at A., 27 Dec., 1803. Philip Henry Poore, of the s., surgeon, bondsman. 

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Warwickshire, Combe-Fields – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for Combe-Fields, 1841-1891
Author: Great Britain. Census Office

Administration

  • County: Warwickshire
  • Civil Registration District: Rugby
  • Probate Court: see surrounding parishes
  • Diocese: Not Applicable
  • Rural Deanery: Not Applicable
  • Poor Law Union: Rugby
  • Hundred: Kightlow
  • Province: Canterbury