LONG ITCHINGTON

The village lies six miles due east of Leamington Spa on the Coventry to Banbury road. It has the distinction of appearing in the Domesday Book as a place of more importance than Coventry. There are several old and interesting houses, and the church in one part dates from 1190. On two occasions Queen Elizabeth I was entertained at Long Itchington on her way to Warwick and Kenilworth castles. There is a British Legion Home in the parish. Stoneythorpe and Bascote Heath are hamlets.

DIOCESE: Lichfield. HUNDRED: Knightlow. UNION: Southam

ADJOINING PARISHES: Hunningham, Marton, Birdingbury or Birbury, Stockton, Southam, Ufton, Offchurch.

Parish Registers: Christenings: 1653-1972 Marriages: 1655-1971 Burials: 1653-1950 Banns 1754-1782, 1794-1818, 1823-1931.

Bishop's Transcripts : 1653-1846 LIC Begin c1833 WOR

IGI: Christenings: 1653-1876, Marriages: 1653-1876. Widely available; BMSGH(PS)

NONCONFORMIST: Congregational: Z 1832-1966 Marriages: 1864-1953 Burials: 1864,1954,1961 M Christenings: 1832-1965.

MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTIONS: Yard, WAR
Bascote Heath Churchyard only BMSGH m/fiche , WAR , SoG , BIR
Long Itchington Holy Trinity BMSGH m/fiche WAR , SoG , BIR

PROBATE RECORDS: LIC

CENSUS RETURNS: All WAR
1851 BMSGH SI v.14 SoG , BIR
1881 BCP , BMSGH(PS)

INDEXES
Burial 1813-1837
Marriage 1754-1837

MANORIAL RECORDS: 1674-1684 STR
Fragment of Court Roll 1507-1508, (Newdigate papers).
Abstract of Court Rolls 1339-1471/2 (List of tenants) WAR

OTHER SOURCES: Abell, family papers.
Chamberlayne of Stoneythorpe, papers etc.
Horley 1783-1798.
Diaries of Parsons family 1845, 1894.
Map of Richard Chamberlayne's estate and schedule, 1754.
Plan of John Daniel's estate 1816 and c1830.
Survey with plans of farms belonging to Lord Leigh 1767.
Long Itchington, Portrait of a Parish, Archibald Payne, 1968.
Long Itchington TBAS Vol.79 1964.
Depopulation in Long Itchington Parish, War.Hist. Vol.4 No.4.
W.I. Domesday Book 1976.
Ward collection drawings.


[Last updated: 18th March 2013 ]