CLAVERDON

The village, which is fairly extensive, is three and a half miles south east of Henley-in-Arden. The fifteenth century church, largely rebuilt in the late nineteenth century, has an embattled tower and contains early monuments to the Spencer family. Langley and Cophill are within the parish.

DIOCESE: Worcester. HUNDRED: Barlichway. UNION: Stratford-upon-Avon

ADJOINING PARISHES: Rowington, Shrewley, Hatton, Budbrooke, Norton Lindsey Wolverton, Wootton Wawen, Preston Bagott.

Parish Registers: Christenings: 1593-1596, 1629-1949 Marriages: 1637-1978

Burials: 1596-1597, 1629-1961 Banns 1885-1937 also transcript 1754-1810.

Bishop's Transcripts : Begin 1610 WOR

IGI: Christenings: 1593-1875, Marriages: 1637-1877. Widely available; BMSGH(PS)

REGISTER COPIES: Christenings: 1594-1597, 1629-1700, Marriages: 1637-1694, Burials: 1596-1597, 1629-1700 STR CB 1629-1812, Marriages: 1637-1812.

MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTIONS: Church and Yard WAR
Church and Yard to 1890s STR

PROBATE RECORDS: WOR

CENSUS RETURNS: All WAR
1851 (inc Langley) BIR
1851 BMSGH SI v.11 SoG , BIR
1851 vV (RR) , SoG
1851 (Langley) vXIV (RR) , SoG
1881 BCP , BMSGH(PS)

INDEXES
Burial 1813-1837
Marriage 1754-1835
Poor Law c.1690-1860

MANORIAL RECORDS: 1515-1779, and 1381-1742 (Langley) STR

DEEDS: Deeds 1817-1921 of Hillcrest, Yarningale.
Charity Deeds 1556-1848.

OTHER SOURCES: Galton properties, 1650-1919.
The Kemps of Warwick, Rowington, Tanworth-in-Arden, Lapworth and Claverdon, T.Kemp 1913.
Troth & Hillson, (Langley), Agricultural Engineers 1854-1950, ledgers, day books, accounts books, correspondence etc..
History of Claverdon, E.Wheeler-Galton 1934 (Warwickshire Village Hist. Soc.).
Extracts from History of Claverdon above (The King's Stone Press) 1937
Claverdon past and present, compiled by Claverdon Local History Group (1970).
Langley W.I. Scrapbook 1965.
Survey and Terrier 1792
Volume entitled Claverdon Manor 23-24 Henry VII containing transcripts of ministers' accounts for those years, copies of tombstone inscriptions and other matters (by E.G.Wheeler-Galton) early 20th century.
A Seventeenth-century Warwickshire Clergyman, Thomas Pilkington, Vicar of Claverdon, TBAS Vol.LXV 1943 p110-125. BIR and WAR
Records of Claverdon and Snitterfield BIR
Ward collection drawings.


[Last updated: 18th March 2013 ]