Kingsbury, Warwickshire

Historical Description

Kingsbury, a village and a parish in Warwickshire. The village stands on the river Tame, 1½ mile E of the Birmingham and Fazeley Canal, 3½ miles SSW of Watling Street, and 5 S of Tamworth, and has a station on the Birmingham and Derby branch of the M.R., and a post office under Tamworth; money order office, Fazeley; telegraph office, at the railway station. The parish contains also the villages of Hurley and Dosthill, and the hamlets of Holloughton, Slately, Whateley, Cliff, and Bodymoor Heath. Acreage, 8070; population, 2049. The manor belonged in the 9th century to Turchill de Warwick, and passed to the Bracebridges of Atherstone. Kingsbury Hall was the ancient seat of the Bracebridge family, but is now con verted in to farm buildings. Coal is mined and bricks are made. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Worcester; net value, £210 with residence. The church is ancient, and was partly restored in 1887, and contains a fine monument to the Earl of Carhampton, yedilia, piscinae, and some stained windows. There is a chapel of ease at Dosthill, and Wesleyan chapels at Hurley and Bodymoor Heath.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.

Church Records

The Warwickshire County Record Office hold the following registers for Kingsbury:

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 Kingsbury from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Kingsbury (St. Peter and St. Paul))

Land and Property

The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Warwickshire is available to browse.

Maps

Online maps of Kingsbury 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:

• Leamington Spa Courier

Visitations Heraldic

The Visitation of Warwickshire 1619 is available on the Heraldry page.