Hillmorton, Warwickshire
Historical Description
Hillmorton, a village and a parish in Warwickshire. The village stands partly on an eminence, partly on an affluent of the river Avon, near the Oxford Canal and the boundary with Northampton, 2 miles from Watling Street, and 2½ ESE of Rugby, and has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Rugby, and a Home Mission and reading-room, also an ancient stone cross. The upper part of it was anciently called Hill or Hull, the lower part Moreton, and these two names combined give the name of Hillmorton. The parish comprises 3124 acres; population, 1136. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Worcester; gross value, £191 with residence. The church is ancient, consists of nave, chancel, and aisles, with square tower, and contains an effigy of a priest and two monuments of the Astley family. There are Baptist and Wesleyan chapels.
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 | Hillmorton St. John the Baptist | |
| 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 Hill Morton:
| Baptisms | Marriages | Burials |
|---|---|---|
| 1564-1959 | 1564-1940 | 1564-1957 |
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 Hillmorton from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Hillmorton (St. John the Baptist))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Warwickshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Hillmorton 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.