Water Orton, Warwickshire
Historical Description
Water Orton, a hamlet and an ecclesiastical parish in Aston parish, Warwickshire, 2½ miles NW of Coleshill, with a station on the M.R., and a post, money order, and telegraph office under Birmingham. There is an ancient bridge across the Tame. The ecclesiastical parish was constituted in 1871. Population, 545. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Worcester; net value, £250 with residence. The church, erected in 1879, is in the Early English style.
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 | Aston | |
| Hundred | Hemlingford | |
| Poor Law union | Aston |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
The Warwickshire County Record Office hold the following registers for Water Orton:
| Baptisms | Marriages | Burials |
|---|---|---|
| 1785-1963 | 1872-1973 | 1810-1992 |
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 Water Orton from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Water-Overton)
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Warwickshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Water Orton 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.