Wolford, Warwickshire

Historical Description

Wolford, two townships and a parish in Warwickshire. The townships are Great Wolford and Little Wolford. Great Wolford includes a village of the same name, and is 4 miles SW of Shipston-on-Stour, and 4 ENE of Moreton-in-the-Marsh. Post town, Shipston-on-Stour. Acreage, 1369; population, 202. Little Wolford is 3 miles S of Shipston-on-Stour. Acreage, 1343; population, 173. Little Wolford Hall, an Elizabethan mansion, formerly belonged to the Ingram family, and is now used as a school. The ecclesiastical parish includes Burmington. Population, 530. The living is a vicarage, united with Burmington, in the diocese of Worcester; gross value, £105 with residence. Patron, Merton College, Oxford. The church was rebuilt in 1833.

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 Wolford:

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 Wolford from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Wolford, Little)

Land and Property

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

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.