Brownsover, Warwickshire

Historical Description

Brownsover, a township-chapelry in Clifton-on-Dunsmore parish, Warwickshire, near the confluence of the Avon and the Swift, and the Oxford Canal, 3 miles N by E of Rugby, which is the post town. Acreage, 913; population, 72. Brownsover House is the seat of the Leighs. The living is a chapelry, annexed to the vicarage of Clifton-on-Dunsmore, in the diocese of Worcester. The church is Early English, and was restored in 1877 by Sir G. Gilbert Scott; it consists of chancel and nave, and contains a pulpit said to have been brought from a Belgian monastery. Laurence Sheriff, the founder of Rugby school, is claimed as a native.

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 Brownsover:

Most of the records prior to 1911 have been digitised and are available on Ancestry.co.uk

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Brownsover from the following:

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

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Brownsover 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.