Wibtoft, Warwickshire

Historical Description

Wibtoft, a township in Claybrooke parish, Warwickshire, near the intersection of Walling Street and the Fosse Way, 2 miles E of Ullesthorpe station on the M.B., and 5½ WNW of Lutterworth. It has a post office under Rugby; money order office, Ullesthorpe; telegraph office, Ullesthorpe railway station. Acreage, 858; population, 72. There is a chapel of ease.

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.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Wibtoft from the following:

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

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Wibtoft 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.