COMPTON VERNEY

Compton Verney is just north of Kineton and was an 'extra parochial Liberty', see note in Introduction. It is named after the Verney family, previously it was known as Compton Mordake, after the Mordake family. George Verney, twelfth Lord Willoughby de Broke, arranged for the building of the present mansion in 1714. The fourteenth Earl in 1780 carried out extensions and employed Robert Adam for this purpose. The grounds were landscaped by Lancelot Capability Brown who constructed two lakes almost a mile long from a number of smaller pools.

DIOCESE: Worcester. HUNDRED: Kington. UNION: Stratford

Parish Registers: (Burials only) 1852-1923 (earlier entries in other parishes especially Lighthorne.)

REGISTER COPIES: Marriages: 1747-1753 (from Lighthorne registers) STR Burials: 1880-1923 SoG

MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTIONS: Church, Yard STR

PROBATE RECORDS: WOR

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

MANORIAL RECORDS: 1352-1696 STR Surveys of the Manor by James Fish 1736 and 1738.

OTHER SOURCES: Green family 1691-1858.
Parish magazines 1883-1933.
The Landscape Lakes of Compton Verney, War.Hist. Vol.1 No.1.
Compton Verney, War.Hist. Vol.3 No.1.
Historical Notes on Compton Verney Church, E.M. Mills (Warwickshire Village Hist.Soc. 1932).
Compton Verney Manor House, WWM Vol.5 No.11, Dec 1957.
Compton Verney, Country Life, Oct 18 1913 (photostat at WAR ).


[Last updated: 18th March 2013 ]