Bickenhill, Warwickshire
Historical Description
Bickenhill, a village and a parish in Warwickshire. The village is 2 miles NW of Hampton-in-Arden station, which is a junction of the L. & N.W.R. and M.R., and 8 SE of Birmingham, under which it has a post office; money order and telegraph office, Hampton-in-Arden. The parish comprises Church, Middle Bickenhill, Marston Green, and Lyndon quarters. Acreage, 2925; population of the ci vil parish, 516; of the ecclesiastical, 1613. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Worcester; net value, £243 with residence. Patron, the Earl of Aylesford. The church is Norman, and is a fine building of red sandstone, with an embattled tower and lofty spire. There are several stained windows. Marston Green has a proprietary chapel belonging to the Wingfield Digby family, a station on the L. & N.W.R., and a post office. Lyndon End, or Olton, is now included in Solihull parish for civil purposes only, but remains ecclesiastically in the parish of Bickenhill.
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 | Church Bickenhill St. Peter | |
| Hundred | Hemlingford | |
| Poor Law union | Meriden |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
The Warwickshire County Record Office hold the following registers for Bickenhill:
| Baptisms | Marriages | Burials |
|---|---|---|
| 1558-1859 | 1559-1976 | 1582-1890 |
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 Bickenhill from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Bickenhill, Church (St. Peter))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Warwickshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Bickenhill 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.