Leek Wootton, Warwickshire

Historical Description

Leek Wootton, a village and a parish in Warwickshire. The village stands near the river Avon, 1½ mile S by W of Kenilworth station on the L. & N.W.R., and 2 miles N of Warwick. It has a post and telegraph office under Warwick; money order office, Warwick. The parish contains also the hamlet of Hill Wootton. Acreage, 2101; population, 420— The manor belongs to Lord Algernon Percy, owner of Guy'— Cliffe, which is just outside the parish. Woodcote House and Wootton Court are the chief residences. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Worcester; gross value,, £300 with residence. Patron, Lord Leigh. The church was rebuilt in 1792, and restored in 1889.

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 Leek Wootton:

Most of the records prior to 1911 have been digitised and are available on Ancestry.co.uk

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Leek Wootton from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Wootton, Leek (All Saints))

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Leek Wootton 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.