Princethorpe, Warwickshire
Historical Description
Princethorpe, a township in Stretton-on-Dunsmore parish, Warwickshire, on the Fosse Way, near the river Ichene, 2½ miles S of Marton station on the L. & N.W.R., and 6 NW of Southam. It has a post office under Rugby; money order and telegraph office, Marton. Acreage, 1070; population, 279. A Benedictine priory or nunnery was erected in 1833; includes a chapel, with a low steeple, and stands on a plot of about 4 acres.
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 | Stretton upon Dunsmoor | |
| Hundred | Knightlow | |
| Poor Law union | Rugby |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Princethorpe from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Princethorpe)
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Warwickshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Princethorpe 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.