Newbold Pacey, Warwickshire
Historical Description
Newbold Pacey, a parish in Warwickshire, on a small affluent of the river Avon, near the Fosse Way, 5 miles WSW of Southam Road and Harbury station on the Oxford and Leamington section of the G.W.R., and 6 S by E of Warwick. It contains the hamlet of Ashorne, and its post town is Warwick; money order and telegraph office, Wellesbourne. Acreage, 1851; population, 338. There is a parish council consisting of five members. The manor belonged anciently to the Pacey family. Newbold Pacey Hall is the seat of the Little family. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Worcester; gross value, £172 with residence. Patron, Queen's College, Oxford. The church was rebuilt in 1881 in the Early English style, and retains two Norman doorways of The old church. There is a Congregational chapel at Ashorne.
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 | Newbold-Pacey St. George | |
| Hundred | Kington | |
| Poor Law union | Stratford-upon-Avon |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
The Warwickshire County Record Office hold the following registers for Newbold Pacey:
| Baptisms | Marriages | Burials |
|---|---|---|
| 1554-1978 | 1554-1973 | 1556-1975 |
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 Newbold Pacey from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Newbold-Pacey (St. George))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Warwickshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Newbold Pacey 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.