Whichford, Warwickshire

These web pages contain information about genealogy and population relating to the Parish of Whichford, Warwickshire. Barry Hedges, Eric Beresford and David Franks are preparing transcriptions of the baptism, marriage and burial registers, and indexes of names on the Parish Registers willbe made available.Register entries for the Whichford registers are are not in the International Genealogical Index. The author is the Online Parish Clerk (OPC) for Whichford (see the Warwickshire OPC web site).

Whichford is in the extreme south of the county. The adjacent parishes are Sutton under Brailes, Brailes, Hook Norton, Great Rollright, Long Compton, Wolford and Cherington. Hook Norton and Great Rollright are in Oxfordshire, and all of the rest are in Warwickshire (see the map of Whichford and the surrounding parishes). In this part of the country four counties (Warwickshire, Oxfordshire, Gloucestershire and Worcestershire) not only met, but were almost inextricably intermingled. County reorganisation has changed this, but records and registers for local parishes will still be found in possibly unexpected places. Ascot(t) is a hamlet within Whichford, and Stourton is a village which was partly within the Parish of Whichford and partly within the Parish of Cherington, now wholly within Cherington. Stourton will often be found spelled as Stowerton.

Information about the Parish can be found on the pages maintained by the Birmingham and Midland Society for Genealogy and Heraldry and on the Vision of Britain through Time site.

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