Combrook, Warwickshire
Historical Description
Combrook or Combroke, a village, a township, and an ecclesiastical parish in Compton Verney parish, Warwickshire. The village is adjacent to the Fosse Way, 2 miles W by N of Kineton. It has a post office under Warwick; money order and telegraph office, Kineton. There is a working men's institute. The township comprises 1145 acres; population, 209. The ecclesiastical parish was constituted in 1853. Population, 295. The living is a vicarage consolidated witli that of Compton Verney in the diocese of Worcester; gross joint value, £200. Patron, Lord Willoughby de Broke, The church was rebuilt in 1867, and contains an ancient font. There is a Wesleyan chapel.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
| Ancient County | Warwickshire | |
| Civil parish | Kington | |
| Hundred | Kington | |
| Poor Law union | Stratford-upon-Avon |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
The Warwickshire County Record Office hold the following registers for Combroke:
| Baptisms | Marriages | Burials |
|---|---|---|
| 1715-1917 | 1716-1968 | 1701-1995 |
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 Combrook from the following:
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Warwickshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Combrook 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.