Wishaw, Warwickshire
Historical Description
Wishaw, a parish in Warwickshire, 3 miles N of Water Orton station on the M.R., and 4 N of Coleshill. It has a post office under Birmingham; money order office, Minworth; telegraph office, Water Orton. It includes the hamlet of Moxhull. Acreage, 1204; population, 180. Moxhull Hall is a handsome modern mansion, situated in a well-wooded park with a fine sheet of water. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Worcester; net value, £285 with residence. The church is Early English, with an ivy-clad pinnacled tower, and was restored in 1886. It contains some ancient monuments to the Hacket family.
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 | Wishaw St. Chad | |
| Hundred | Hemlingford | |
| Poor Law union | Aston |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
The Warwickshire County Record Office hold the following registers for Wishaw:
| Baptisms | Marriages | Burials |
|---|---|---|
| 1688-2000 | 1690-2007 | 1688-1999 |
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 Wishaw from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Wishaw (St. Chad))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Warwickshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Wishaw 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.