CHURCHOVER

The busy M6 motorway now runs across the parish. The village is situated about four miles north east of Rugby and is on the Warwickshire side of the Roman Watling Street. Old cottages are grouped around the fifteenth century parish church, largely rebuilt in the late nineteenth century. Coton is a hamlet within the parish.

DIOCESE: Lichfield. HUNDRED: Knightlow. UNION: Rugby

ADJOINING PARISHES: Monks Kirby, Lutterworth and Cotesbach in Leicestershire, Clifton-upon-Dunsmore, Brownsover, Newbold-on-Avon, Harborough Magnaa.

Parish Registers: Christenings: 1658-1915 Marriages: 1658-1958 Burials: 1658-1984 Banns 1754-1819 1824-1927

Bishop's Transcripts : 1660-1840 LIC Begin c1833 WOR

IGI: Christenings: 1658-1670 & 1721-1876, Marriages: 1758-1876 and Independent Chapel Christenings: 1822-1836. Widely available; BMSGH(PS)

REGISTER COPIES: Christenings: 1658-1670, 1721-1756 Marriages: 1849-1859. Marriages: 1658-1812 BOYD MISC , SoG

NONCONFORMIST: Congregational/Independent: Z 1822-1836 PRO , WAR , COV

MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTIONS: Holy Trinity BMSGH.m/fiche , WAR , BIR , SoG

PROBATE RECORDS: LIC

CENSUS RETURNS: All WAR
1851 vXV (RR) , SoG
1881 BCP BMSGH(PS)

INDEXES
Burial 1813-1837
Marriage 1755-1836

MANORIAL RECORDS: 1535 (Coton in Churchover) STR

OTHER SOURCES: W.I. Domesday Book 1976

[Last updated: 18th March 2013 ]