Idlicote, Warwickshire Family History Guide

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Idlicote is an Ancient Parish in the county of Warwickshire.

Parish church: St. James

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1556
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1611

Nonconformists include:

Adjacent Parishes

Idlicote 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.

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

Idlicote, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1812-1922

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

Idlicote Marriages 1557 to 1812 Warwickshire Parish Registers Marriages Edited by W. P. W. Phillimore and J. Harvey Bloom. Volume 1. – This book is a free download from Parishmouse.

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

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

IDLICOTE, a parish in Shipston-on-Stour district, Warwick; 2½ miles NNE of Shipston-on-Stour, and 8½ ENE of Chipping-Campden railway station. Post town, Shipston-on-Stour. Acres, 1,408. Real property, £1,784. Pop., 115. Houses, 26. The manor belonged to the monks of Kenilworth; passed through various hands; and belongs now to Captain Peach. Idlicote House, the manorial mansion, is a handsome edifice in the Tudor style, and commands extensive views. The parish is a meet for the Warwick hounds. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Worcester. Value, £230. Patron, Captain Peach. The church is old, and consists of nave, aisle. and chancel, with a tower. Charities, £8.

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

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1845

Idlicote (St. James), a parish, in the union of Shipston-upon-Stour, Brails division of the hundred of Kington, S. division of the county of Warwick, 3¼ miles (N. E.) from Shipston; containing 82 inhabitants. The parish, which is situated on the right bank of the Stour, that river separating it from a detached part of Worcestershire, comprises by computation 1408 acres: stone of inferior quality is obtained for rough buildings, and for repairing the roads. The living is a rectory, valued in the King’s books at £13. 6. 8.; net income, £80; patron, Henry P. K. Peach, Esq.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis Fifth Edition Published London; by S. Lewis and Co., 13, Finsbury Place, South. M. DCCC. XLV.

Idlicote A Topographical Dictionary of Great Britain and Ireland 1833

Idlicote, co. Warwick.

P. T. Shipston-upon-Stour (83) 3 m. NNE. Pop. 88.

A parish in the Brailes division of the hundred of Kington; living, a rectory in the archdeaconry and diocese of Worcester; valued in K. B. 13l. 6s. 8d.; church ded. to St. James; patron (1829) Samuel Peach, Esq.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of Great Britain and Ireland by John Gorton. The Irish and Welsh articles by G. N. Wright; Vol. II; London; Chapman and Hall, 186, Strand; 1833.

Maps

OS Grid Reference: SP2816644221 (all-numeric format: 428166 244221)

Vision of Britain historical maps

National Library of Scotland

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