Grandborough, Warwickshire
Historical Description
Grandborough, a village and a parish in Warwickshire. The village stands on the river Learn, near the Oxford Canal and the boundary with Northamptonshire, 5 miles SE by E of Birdingbury station on the Rugby, Leamington, and Warwick branch of the L. & N.W.R., 6 NE of Southam, and 6 S of Rngby. It has a post office under Rugby; money order and telegraph office, Dnnchurch. The parish includes the hamlets of Woolscott and Calcutt. Acreage, 4494; population, 396. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Worcester; net value, £200 with residence. The church is ancient, and was restored in 1862. There is a Primitive Methodist chapel.
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 | Granborough St. Peter | |
| Hundred | Knightlow | |
| Poor Law union | Rugby |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
The Warwickshire County Record Office hold the following registers for Grandborough:
| Baptisms | Marriages | Burials |
|---|---|---|
| 1581-1982 | 1581-1995 | 1581-1982 |
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 Grandborough from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Granborough (St. Peter))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Warwickshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Grandborough 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.