Long Itchington Warwickshire Family History Guide

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Long Itchington is an Ancient Parish in the county of Warwickshire. 

Other places in the parish include: Stoney Thorpe and Bascote. 

Parish church: Holy Trinity

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1653
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1653

Nonconformists include: Independent/Congregational

Adjacent Parishes

Long Itchington Parish Registers

Baptism, Marriage and Burial Records

These records include images of Church of England parish registers of baptism, marriage, and burial records.

Long Itchington, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1812-1922

Death and Burial Records

These records include images of Church of England parish registers of deaths and burial records.

Long Itchington, Church of England Deaths and Burials, 1813-1997

Long Itchington Strays

John Hobley, p. Long Itchington, co. Warwick, & Elizabeth Edwards, of F. C, lic. 14 Sept. 1769 married at Fenny Compton

John Cook, of F. C, & Mary Brothers, p Long Itchington, lic. 16 July 1787 married at Fenny Compton

Thomas Cooper, p. Long-Itchington, co. Warwick, b., & Elizabeth Powell, of F. C, s. 12 Oct. 1807 married at Fenny Compton

William Bradly, p. B., & Joan Yates, p. Itchington Long, 9 Nov. 1628 married at Bourton on Dunsmore

Isaac Watts, p. Long Itchington, & Mary Poole, p. B. 30 Oct. 1797 married at Bourton on Dunsmore

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

ITCHINGTON (LONG), a village and a parish in Southam district, Warwick. The village stands on the river Ichene or Watergall, near the Warwick and Napton canal, 2 miles NNW of Southam and 2 S of Marton r. station; and has a post office under Rugby.

The parish contains also the hamlets of Stoney-Thorpe and Bascote. Acres, 4,510. Real property, £8,636. Pop. in 1851, 1,216; in 1861, 1,150. Houses, 271. The property is subdivided. The manor belonged to the Odingsells; passed through several hands to Dudley Earl of Leicester, who here entertained Queen Elizabeth on her way to Kenilworth; and belongs now to Lord Leigh and the Earl of Aylesford. The parish is a meet for the Warwickshire hounds.

The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Worcester. Value, £210. Patron, J. D. Ellis, Esq., three turns, and Lord Leigh, one turn. The church is very ancient; consists of nave, S aisle, and chancel, with a tower; and was restored in 1866.

There are chapels for Independents and Primitive Methodists, a neat national school of 1855, and charities £31. St. Wulfstan was a native.

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

Administration

  • County: Warwickshire
  • Civil Registration District: Southam
  • Probate Court: Pre-1837 – Court of the Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry (Episcopal Consistory), Post-1836 – Court of the Bishop of Worcester (Episcopal Consistory)
  • Diocese: Worcester
  • Rural Deanery: Marton
  • Poor Law Union: Southam
  • Hundred: Knightlow
  • Province: Canterbury