Wilmcote, Warwickshire

Historical Description

Wilmcote, a hamlet in Astor Cantlow parish, and an ecclesiastical parish partly also in Old Stratford parish, Warwickshire. The hamlet is 3½ miles NW of Stratford-upon-Avon, and has a station on the G.W.R., and a post office under Stratford-upon-Avon; money order office, Stratford-upon-Avon; telegraph office, Shottery. The ecclesiastical parish includes also the village of Pathlow and a portion of Stratford. Population, 552. There are extensive quarry and cement works. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Worcester; net value, £56 with residence. Patron, the Society for the Maintenance of the Faith. The church was erected in 1841. There is a Congregational chapel.

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.

Church Records

The Warwickshire County Record Office hold the following registers for Wilmcote:

Most of the records prior to 1911 have been digitised and are available on Ancestry.co.uk
See Aston Cantlow for earlier records.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Wilmcote from the following:

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

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Wilmcote 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.