Arley, Warwickshire
Historical Description
Arley, a parish and a village in Warwickshire, 6 miles W by S of Nuneaton, and 9 NNW of Coventry. The parish has a station (more than a mile S of the village), called Arley and Fillongley, on the M.R. It includes the hamlets of Ballard's Green and Divet's Green, and a place called Sloley Hill. Its post town is Coventry; money order office, Fillongley; telegraph office, at the railway station. Acreage, 1946; population, 216. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Worcester; value, £267. The church is ancient, and was restored in 1873. One of the windows in the cliancel has specimens of very fine ancient painted glass; there is also in the chancel a perfect recumbent figure of a priest habited in Eucharistic vestments. There are the remains of the ambry and the piscina.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
| Ancient County | Warwickshire | |
| Ecclesiastical parish | Arley St. Wilfrid | |
| Hundred | Knightlow | |
| Poor Law union | Nuneaton |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
The Warwickshire County Record Office hold the following registers for Arley:
| Baptisms | Marriages | Burials |
|---|---|---|
| 1557-1928 | 1557-1939 | 1557-1929 |
Most of the records prior to 1911 have been digitised and are available on Ancestry.co.uk
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Arley from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Arley (St. Wilfrid))
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.