Whitchurch Warwickshire Family History Guide

Whitchurch is an Ancient Parish in the county of Warwickshire.

Other places in the parish include: Broughton, Crimscott, and Wimpstone.

Parish church: St. Mary

Parish registers begin:

Parish registers: 1561
Bishop’s Transcripts: 1611

Nonconformists include:

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The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

WHITCHURCH, a parish in Stratford-on-Avon district, Warwick; 4 miles SE of Milcote r. station, and 5¼ SSE of Stratford. Post town, Stratford-on-Avon. Acres, 1,942. Real property, £3,971. Pop., 234. Houses, 50. The manor belongs to J. R. West, Esq. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Worcester. Value, £287. Patron, J. R. West, Esq. 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 1848

WHITCHURCH (St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Stratford-upon-Avon, Kineton division of the hundred of Kineton, S. division of the county of Warwick, 4 miles (S. S. E.) from Stratford; containing 247 inhabitants.

It includes the hamlets of Broughton, Critnscott, and Wimpstone; and comprises 1942a. 2r. 4p., of which 313 acres are common or waste: of the tithable land, 799 acres are arable, and 116 pasture.

The soil is moderately good, in some parts very rich, and the surface is level. The river Stour bounds the parish on the north-east and north, and the road from Stratford to Oxford passes through. There are some quarries of stone used chiefly for mending the roads.

The living is a rectory, valued in the king’s books at £20. 17. 3½., and in the patronage of J. Roberts West, Esq.: the tithes have been commuted for £286. 10. 7., and the glebe comprises 77 acres, with a parsonage-house, built in 1840 by the present rector. The church is an ancient structure in the Norman style. £6. 7. left by the Ayshcombe family (to one of whom is a monument in the church) are distributed in bread and clothes annually to the poor. Here is a mound marking the site of an old castle.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848