Billesley, Warwickshire
Historical Description
Billesley, a parish in Warwickshire, 2 miles SW of Wilm-cote station on the G.W.R., and 3½ WNW of Stratford-on-Avon, which is the pobt town. Acreage, 8 22; population, 16. Billesley Hall was a large Elizabethan mansion, but only a portion now remains. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Worcester; gross value, £232. The church is small.
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 | Billesley All Saints | |
| Hundred | Barlichway | |
| Poor Law union | Stratford-upon-Avon |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
The Warwickshire County Record Office hold the following registers for Billesley:
| Baptisms | Marriages | Burials |
|---|---|---|
| 1818-1974 | 1816-1923 | 1817-1969 |
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 Billesley from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Billesley (All Saints))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Warwickshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Billesley 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.