Pillerton Priors, Warwickshire

Historical Description

Pillerton Priors, a parish in Warwickshire, adjacent to the Fosse Way, 4 miles SW of Kineton and 7½ SE of Stratford-on-Avon. It has a post office under Warwick; money order and telegraph office, Ettington. Acreage, 1547; population, 100. The living is a perpetual curacy, .annexed to the vicarage of Pillerton Hersey, in the diocese of Worcester. The church went long ago to decay, but the churchyard is still in use. There is a Wesleyan chapel built in 1861.

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 Pillerton Priors:

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 Pillerton Priors from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Pillerton-Priors (St. Mary Magdalene))

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Pillerton Priors 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.