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A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Hemlingford Hundred from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:
- "HEMLINGFORD, a hundred in Warwick; comprising the divisions of Atherstone, Birmingham, Coleshill, and Solihull. Acres: 152,123. Population in 1851: 59,838; in 1861: 74,233. Houses: 15,838."
Today much of what was Hemlingford Hundred is located in the metropolitan county of the West Midlands, but some is also covered by the North Warwickshire District of the original county of Warwickshire. It also stretched into what was Staffordshire before it also became part of West Midlands.
A map of the four ancient divisions named "hundreds" is to be found in A Vision of Britain through Time. It also shows the detached sections of Warwickshire as they were in 1832. These have now been transferred to the neighbouring counties.
List of Parishes
Parish | Type | Notes | Subsidiary Place | Subsidiary Place Type
| Ansley | parish (ancient), civil parish | | |
| Aston | parish (ancient), civil parish | | Castle Bromwich | chapelry, civil parish
| Erdington | chapelry, civil parish
| Water Orton | hamlet, civil parish
| Austrey | parish (ancient), civil parish | | |
| Baddesley Ensor | chapelry, civil parish | | |
| Barston | chapelry, civil parish | | |
| Baxterley | parish (ancient), civil parish | | |
| Bentley | hamlet, chapelry, civil parish | | |
| Berkswell | parish (ancient), civil parish | | |
| Bickenhill | parish (ancient), civil parish | | |
| Birmingham | parish (ancient), civil parish | | see list with Birmingham |
| Caldecote | parish (ancient), civil parish | | |
| Chilvers Coton | parish (ancient), civil parish | | |
| Coleshill | parish (ancient), civil parish | | Lea Marston | chapelry, civil parish
| Nether Whitacre | chapelry, civil parish
| Over Whitacre | chapelry, civil parish
| Corley | parish (ancient), civil parish | | |
| Curdworth | parish (ancient), civil parish | | Minworth | hamlet, civil parish
| Drayton Bassett, Staffordshire | parish (ancient), civil parish | | |
| Edgbaston | chapelry, civil parish | | |
| Elmdon | parish (ancient), civil parish | | |
| Fillongley | parish (ancient), civil parish | | |
| Great Packington | parish (ancient), civil parish | | |
| Grendon | parish (ancient), civil parish | | |
| Hampton in Arden | parish (ancient), civil parish | | Baddesley Clinton | chapelry, parish (ancient), civil parish
| Balsall | chapelry, civil parish
| Kinwalsey | hamlet, civil parish
| Knowle | chapelry, civil parish
| Nuthurst | hamlet, chapelry, civil parish
| Kingsbury | parish (ancient), civil parish | | |
| Little Packington | parish (ancient), civil parish | | |
| Mancetter | parish (ancient), civil parish | | Atherstone | township, civil parish
| Hartshill | hamlet, civil parish
| Oldbury | hamlet, civil parish
| Maxstoke | parish (ancient), civil parish | | |
| Merevale | extra parochial area, chapelry, civil parish | | |
| Meriden | parish (ancient), civil parish | | |
| Middleton | parish (ancient), civil parish | | |
| Newton Regis | parish (ancient), civil parish | | |
| No Man's Heath | extra parochial area, civil parish, 1858-1888 | | |
| Nuneaton | parish (ancient), civil parish | | |
| Polesworth | parish (ancient), civil parish | | |
| Seckington | parish (ancient), civil parish | | |
| Sheldon | parish (ancient), civil parish | | |
| Shustoke | parish (ancient), civil parish | | |
| Shuttington | parish (ancient), civil parish | | |
| Solihull | parish (ancient), civil parish | | |
| Sutton Coldfield | parish (ancient), civil parish | | |
| Tamworth, Staffordshire | chapelry, parish (ancient), civil parish | | Almington and Stoneydelph, Warwickshire | township, civil parish
| Fazeley, Staffordshire | township, civil parish
| Glascote, Staffordshire | township, civil parish
| Hopwas Hays, Staffordshire | extra parochial area, hamlet, civil parish
| Tamworth Castle, Warwickshire | parochial liberty, civil parish
| Wiggington, Staffordshire | chapelry, civil parish
| Wilnecote and Castle Liberty, Warwickshire | township/chapelry, civil parish
| Weddington | parish (ancient), civil parish | | |
| Wishaw | parish (ancient), civil parish | | |
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Research tips
- GENUKI main page for Warwickshire provides information on various topics covering the whole of the county, and also a link to a list of parishes. Under each parish there is a list of the settlements within it and brief description of each. This is a list of pre-1834 ancient or ecclesiastical parishes but there are suggestions as to how to find parishes set up since then. GENUKI provides references to other organizations who hold genealogical information for the local area. There is no guarantee that the website has been kept up to date and therefore the reader should check additional sources if possible.
- Warwickshire and West Midland family history societies are listed in GENUKI.
- The FamilyTree Wiki has a series of pages similar to those provided by GENUKI which may have been prepared at a later date and from more recent data. The wiki has a link to English Jurisdictions 1851. There is a list of all the parishes in existence at that date with maps indicating their boundaries. The website is very useful for finding the ecclesiastical individual parishes within large cities and towns.
- A Vision of Britain through Time, Warwickshire, section "Units and Statistics" leads to analyses of population and organization of the county from about 1800 through 1974. There are pages available for all civil parishes, municipal boroughs and other administrative divisions. Descriptions provided are usually based on a gazetteer of 1870-72 which often provides brief notes on the economic basis of the settlement and significant occurences through its history.
- The two maps below indicate the boundaries between parishes, etc., but for a more detailed view of a specific area try a map from this selection. The oldest series are very clear at the third magnification offered. Comparing the map details with the GENUKI details for the same area is well worthwhile.
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- A map of the ancient divisions named "hundreds" is to be found in A Vision of Britain through Time. It shows the detached sections of Warwickshire as they were in 1832. These detached sections have now been moved into the counties that surrounded them.
- As of October 2016 Warwickshire Parish Registers, 1535-1984 are available to search online on FamilySearch
- As of September 2018 TheGenealogist has added over 1.5 million individuals to its Warwickshire Parish Record Collection and so increases the coverage of this Midland county for family researchers to find their ancestors baptisms, marriages and burials. These records are released in association with Warwickshire County Record Office and have the benefit of high quality images to complement the transcripts, making them a valuable resource for those with ancestors from this area. These are available to Genealogist Diamond Subscription holders.
- The website British History Online provides seven volumes of the Victoria County History Series on Warwickshire. The first (Vol 2) covers the religious houses of the county; Volumes 3 through 6 provide articles the settlements in each of the hundreds in turn, and Volumes 7 and 8 deal with Birmingham and Coventry respectively. References to individual parishes will be furnished as time permits.
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