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Fletchamstead, Warwickshire

Historical Description

Fletchamstead, a village in Westwood ecclesiastical parish and Stoneleigh civil parish, Warwickshire, 2 miles SW of Coventry. Over Fletchamstead was given as a manor by Henry VIII. to John Beaumont; passed to the Humberstons and the Leighs, and had a fine Gothic mansion erected on it by Sir Thomas Leigh, which gave shelter for a short time to Charles L, and the remains of which were afterwards converted into a farmhouse. Lower Fletchamstead belonged, in the time of Henry VII., to John Smith, one of the commissioners for levying men against the threatened invasion by France, and was partly converted by his son into a park.

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

Church Records

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

BaptismsMarriagesBurials
1937-19951937-1990 

See Stoneleigh for earlier records.


Land and Property

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


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.