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Corley, Warwickshire

Historical Description

Corley, a parish in Warwickshire, 3½ miles W of Longford and Exhall station on the Coventry and Nuneaton branch of the L. & N.W.R., and 4¼ NW of Coventry. It has a post office under Coventry; money order office, Fil-longley; telegraph office, Arley railway station. Acreage, 1394; population, 274. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Worcester; net value, £286 with residence. The church has Saxon, Norman, Transition, and Decorated work in it; it formerly belonged to Coventry Priory. There are traces of a Roman encampment and other fortifications.

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 
HundredHemlingford 
Poor Law unionMeriden 

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


Church Records

The Warwickshire County Record Office hold the following registers for Corley:

BaptismsMarriagesBurials
1540-19421540-19731540-1932

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 Corley from the following:


Land and Property

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


Maps

Online maps of Corley 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.

DistrictNorth Warwickshire
CountyWarwickshire
RegionWest Midlands
CountryEngland
Postal districtCV7
Post TownCoventry

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