NAPTON-ON-THE-HILL

The village is three and a half miles east of Southam just off the main Leamington to Daventry road. It is unusual in that there are few hill settlements in Warwickshire. The church on the top of Hackwell Hill dates from the thirteenth century. Chapel Green is a hamlet.

DIOCESE: Lichfield. HUNDRED: Knightlow. UNION: Southam

ADJOINING PARISHES: Leamington Hastings, Grandborough, Lower Shuckborough, Upper Shuckburgh, Priors Marston, Priors Hardwick, Upper Radbourne, Ladbroke, Southam.

Parish Registers: Christenings: 1604-1977 Marriages: 1604-1960 Burials: 1604-1950.

Bishop's Transcripts : 1662-1847 LIC Begin c1833 WOR

IGI: Christenings: 1813-1847 & 1875-1885, Marriages: 1813-1895. Widely available; BMSGH(PS)

REGISTER COPIES: CMB 1813-1846 SoG

[ On-line index to baptisms 1813 - 1837 at http://www.centuries-before.co.uk/Napton Baptisms.htm .]

MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTIONS: St.Lawrence BMSGH m/fiche , WAR , SoG , BIR

PROBATE RECORDS: LIC

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

INDEXES
Burial 1813-1837
Marriage 1754-1837

DEEDS: Town Lands Charity deeds 1639-1946.
Many deeds, leases and wills 1601/2-1771.

OTHER SOURCES: Will of John Griffin 1819.
Shuckburgh family pedigree 1563.
A note on cross-matching civil and ecclesiastical baptism entries in a Warwickshire parish, 1837-1851 (Napton-on-the-Hill) 1979.
Marriage and Economic Stress in the Feldon of Warwickshire during the 18th century (based on a study of Stratford-upon-Avon and Napton on the Hill, 1975).
W.I.Scrapbook 1965.

[Last updated: 18th March 2013 ]