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Priors Hardwick, Warwickshire

Historical Description

Hardwick Priors or Priors Hardwick, a village and a parish in Warwickshire, adjacent to Northamptonshire and to the Oxford Canal, 4 miles NE of Fenny Compton station on the G.W.R. and East & West Junction railway, and 6 SE by S of Southam. There is a post office under Daventry; money order office, Priors Marston; telegraph office, Byfield (R.S.O.) Acreage, 1535; population, 267. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Worcester; value, £176. Patron, Earl Spencer. The church is Early and Decorated English, and was restored in 1869.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Ancient CountyWarwickshire 
Ecclesiastical parishPriors Hardwick St. Mary 
HundredKnightlow 
Poor Law unionSoutham 

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.


Church Records

The Warwickshire County Record Office hold the following registers for Priors Hardwick:

BaptismsMarriagesBurials
1661-18871662-20041662-1991

Most of the records prior to 1911 have been digitised and are available on Ancestry.co.uk


Civil Registration

For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.


Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Priors Hardwick from the following:


Land and Property

The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Warwickshire is available to browse.


Maps

Online maps of Priors Hardwick are available from a number of sites:


Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Warwickshire papers online:


Visitations Heraldic

The Visitation of Warwickshire 1619 is available on the Heraldry page.

DistrictStratford-on-Avon
CountyWarwickshire
RegionWest Midlands
CountryEngland
Postal districtCV47
Post TownSoutham

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