Baxterley, Warwickshire
Historical Description
Baxterley, a parish in Warwickshire, 3¼ miles ENE of Kingsbury station on the M.R., and 3¼ W by S of Ather-stone, which is the post town. Acreage, 901; population, 350. Coal is largely worked. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Worcester; net value, £112 with residence. Patrons, the Lord Chancellor and Trustees alternately. The church is a stone edifice in the Early English style, and has an embattled tower.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Warwickshire | |
Hundred | Hemlingford | |
Poor Law union | Atherstone |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
The Warwickshire County Record Office hold the following registers for Baxterley:
Baptisms | Marriages | Burials |
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1542-1598 1673-1899 | 1542-1598 1673-1984 | 1542-1598 1673-1997 |
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 Baxterley from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Baxterley)
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Warwickshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Baxterley are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
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.