Gaydon, Warwickshire
Historical Description
Gaydon, a parish in Warwickshire, 3 miles NE of Kine-ton, and 6 SW of Sontham. It has a post office under Warwick; money order and telegraph office, Kineton. Acreage, 1518; population of the civil parish, 296; of the ecclesiastical, 344. The manor belonged once to the Bishops of Lichfield and Coventry. There is a parish concert hall with reading and refreshment rooms. The living, formerly a chapelry of Bishops Itchington, was with the chapelry of Chadshunt formed into a vicarage in 1879, in the diocese of Worcester; gross value, £210 with residence. The church was erected in 1852.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
| Ancient County | Warwickshire | |
| Civil parish | Bishops Itchington | |
| Hundred | Kington | |
| Poor Law union | Southam |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
The Warwickshire County Record Office hold the following registers for Gaydon:
| Baptisms | Marriages | Burials |
|---|---|---|
| 1701-2007 | 1701-1835 | 1701-1812 1853-2000 |
Most of the records prior to 1911 have been digitised and are available on Ancestry.co.uk
See Bishops Itchington for earlier records.
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 Gaydon from the following:
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Warwickshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Gaydon 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.