Ufton, Warwickshire
Historical Description
Ufton, a village and a parish in Warwickshire, 2½ miles NW of Southam Road and Harbury station on the G.W.R., and 2½ W by N of Southam. Post town, Southam (S.O.) Acreage, 1793; population of the civil parish, 201; of the ecclesiastical, 269. There is a parish council consisting of five members. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Worcester; net value, £147 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Worcester. The church is Early English, and was repaired in 1860. In the churchyard is an ancient cross restored in 1862.
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 | Ufton St. Michael | |
Hundred | Knightlow | |
Poor Law union | Southam |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
The Warwickshire County Record Office hold the following registers for Ufton:
Parish | Baptisms | Marriages | Burials |
---|---|---|---|
Ufton | 1660-1918 | 1660-1980 | 1660-1980 |
Bascote Heath Chapel | 1919-1949 |
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 Ufton from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Ufton (St. Michael))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Warwickshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Ufton 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.