Westwood Warwickshire Family History Guide

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Westwood or Westwood Heath  is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Warwickshire, created in 1846 from Stoneleigh Ancient Parish. The Parish covered much of Burton Green, Tile Hill, Canley and Fletchamstead.

Alternative names: Westwood Heath 

Parish church: St John

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1634
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1662

Nonconformists include:

Adjacent Parishes

Westwood Parish Registers

Westwood Baptism, Marriage and Burial Records

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

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

Westwood Death and Burial Records

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

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

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

WESTWOOD, a chapelry in Stoneleigh parish, Warwick; near Kenilworth r. station. It was constituted in 1846; and its Post town is Kenilworth. Pop., 620. Houses, 143. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Worcester. Value, £150. Patron, the Vicar of Stoneleigh. The church is modern.

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

History of Westwood Heath

Administration

  • County: Warwickshire
  • Civil Registration District: Warwick
  • 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: Stonleigh
  • Poor Law Union: Warwick
  • Hundred: Knightlow
  • Province: Canterbury