Withybrook Warwickshire Family History Guide

Withybrook is an Ancient Parish in the county of Warwickshire.

Other places in the parish include: Hopsford.

Parish church: All Saints

Parish registers begin:

• Parish registers: 1653
• Bishop’s Transcripts: 1809

Nonconformists include: Independent/Congregational and Presbyterian.

Adjacent Parishes

• Combe Fields
• Shilton
• Wolvey
• Copston Magna
• Ansty
• Monks Kirby

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

WITHYBROOK, a parish, with W. village and Hopsford hamlet, in Foleshill district, Warwick; 2¼ miles E of Shilton r. station, and 8 NE by E of Coventry. Post town, Coventry. Acres, 2,520. Real property, £4,741. Pop., 337. Houses, 81.

Clondesley Bush is the seat of B. W. Stevens, Esq.; and Hopsford manor belongs to J. Sartoris, Esq.

The living is a vicarage, annexed to Kirkby-Monks.

There is a national school.

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

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848

WITHYBROOK (All Saints), a parish, in the union of Foleshill, Kirby division of the hundred of Knightlow, N. division of the county of Warwick, 8 miles (N. E. by E.) from Coventry; containing, with the hamlet of Hopsford, 307 inhabitants.

It comprises 2483 acres; the surface is flat, and the soil consists of loam. The Oxford canal and the Trent-Valley railway pass through.

The living is a discharged vicarage, annexed to that of Monk’s-Kirby, and valued in the king’s books at £8. 6. 8.; the glebe contains 45 acres.

There is an Independent place of worship.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848

Parish Records

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

England, Warwickshire, Withybrook – Church records ( 2 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Withybrook, 1809-1836
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Withybrook (Warwickshire)

Parish registers for Withybrook, 1653-1939
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Withybrook (Warwickshire)

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Administration

• County: Warwickshire
• Civil Registration District: Foleshill
• 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: Coventry
• Poor Law Union: Foleshill
• Hundred: Knightlow
• Province: Canterbury