KINWARTON

The original village was only one and a quarter miles north east of Alcester, in the valley of the river Alne which forms its boundary on the south and east. A modern housing estate covers some of the parish. The church is very small. Glebe Farm has seventeenth century timber framing. The National Trust cares for the circular dovecote built in the fourteenth century, and it has five hundred nesting boxes. Great Alne was originally a Chapelry of Kinwarton.

DIOCESE: Worcester HUNDRED: Barlichway UNION: Alcester

ADJOINING PARISHES: Coughton, Great Alne, Haselor, Arrow, Alcester.

Parish Registers: Christenings: 1566-1994 Marriages: 1571-1982 Burials: 1596-1993 (Kinwarton was a popular church for marriages between 1708 and 1739).

Bishop's Transcripts : Begin 1634 WOR

IGI: Christenings: 1566-1722, Marriages: 1571-1722 & 1840-1895. Widely available; BMSGH(PS)

MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTIONS: Church and Yard to 1900 STR
Yard, modern survey ADLHS , ( WAR , WOR )

PROBATE RECORDS: WOR

CENSUS RETURNS: All WAR
1851 BMSGH SI v12 , SoG , BIR
1851 vXIII (RR) , SoG
1881 BCP , BMSGH(PS)

INDEXES
Burial 1813-1837
Marriage 1723-1832

MANORIAL RECORDS: 1752 STR
Plan of Manor 1752 BIR , 1754 WAR

OTHER SOURCES: Diaries of Richard Seymour, Rector of Kinwarton and Great Alne 1832-1873.
Spring Onions, autobiography of Duncan McGuffie, 1942.
Rural Settlements in Warwickshire, by T.R.Slater and G.Bartley, published by the Birmingham Branch of the Geographical Association 1981 (see Charlecote).
See Alcester, Alcester & District Local History Society.
W.I. Scrapbook 1965.

[Last updated: 18th March 2013 ]