Attleborough, Warwickshire

Historical Description

Attleborough, a village and an ecclesiastical parish in Nuneaton parish, Warwickshire, on the Trent Valley railway and the river Anker, near the Coventry Canal, 1 mile S of Nun-eaton, under which it has a post office, and at which is the telegraph office. Population, 1779. The Earl of Harrowby is lord of the manor. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Worcester; net value, £200. Patron, the Vicar of Nun-½aton. The church was built in 1841, and is in the Early English style. There are three Baptist chapels. There are stone-quarries and brick-works, and the inhabitants are employed in the manufacture of ribbons, cotton thread, and elastic web, as well as in agriculture.

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 Attleborough:

See Nuneaton for earlier records.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Attleborough from the following:

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

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Attleborough 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.