DIOCESE: Lichfield. HUNDRED: Kington. UNION: Southam
ADJOINING PARISHES: Lower Radbourn, Wills Pastures, Stoneton and Bodington in Northamptonshire, the Oxfordshire parish of Claydon, Farnborough, Fenny Compton, Watergall.
Parish Registers: Christenings: 1586-1972 Marriages: 1587-1837 Burials: 1586-1990 Banns 1825-1938 (Note: The church was a very popular one for marriages. With the parish records is a notebook kept by the vicar 1747-1754 which lists the full details of the licences.)
Bishop's Transcripts : 1668-1846 LIC Begin c1833 WOR
IGI: Christenings: 1586-1885, Marriages: 1587-1754, 1756-1808 & 1810-1895. Widely available; BMSGH(PS)
REGISTER COPIES: Christenings: 1586-1875 Marriages: 1586-1837 Burials: 1642-1812
SoG
Christenings: 1873-1912 Banns 1823-1879
COV
MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTIONS: St. Peters BMSGH m/fiche , WAR , SoG , BIR
PROBATE RECORDS: LIC
CENSUS RETURNS: All
WAR
1851
BIR
1851 BMSGH SI v.14
SoG ,
BIR
1851 vVII
(RR) ,
SoG
1881
BCP ,
BMSGH(PS)
INDEXES
Burial 1711-1837
Marriage 1756-1837
MANORIAL RECORDS: 1695
STR
Plans of manors belonging to Spencer family 1634, 1734, 1779, 1856,
WAR
OTHER SOURCES: Parish magazines 1883-1933.
Ward collection
drawings.
A specialised study of the area appears in The West
Midlands, Roy Millward and Adrian Robinson, in Landscapes of
Britain series, Macmillan 1971.