Emscote, Warwickshire
Historical Description
Emscote, a suburb of Warwick and an ecclesiastical parish. The latter was constituted in 1861 from the ancient parish of St Nicholas, Warwick. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office (R.S.O.) under Warwick. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Worcester; net value, £110 with residence. Patron, the Vicar of St Nicholas. The church is a handsome edifice, dedicated to All Saints, erected in 1861 and enlarged in 1872.
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Warwickshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Emscote 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.