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Name | Sutton under Brailes |
Alt names | Sutton-under-Brails | source: John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales | | Sutton-under-Brailes | source: alternate spelling |
Type | Parish (ancient), Civil parish |
Coordinates | 52.033°N 1.563°W |
Located in | Warwickshire, England (1844 - ) |
Also located in | Gloucestershire, England ( - 1844) |
See also | Westminster Hundred, Gloucestershire, England | hundred in which it was located | | Kington Hundred, Warwickshire, England | hundred in which it was located | | Brailes Rural, Warwickshire, England | rural district in which it was located until 1931 | | Shipston on Stour Rural, Warwickshire, England | rural district in which it was located 1931-1974 | | Stratford on Avon District, Warwickshire, England | district municipality covering the area since 1974 |
- source: Family History Library Catalog
A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Sutton-under-Brailes from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:
- "SUTTON-UNDER-BRAILS, a parish in Shipston-on-Stour [registration] district, Warwick; 7¼ miles NE by E of Moreton [railway] station. Post town, Shipston-on-Stour. Acres: 1,135. Rated property: £1,651. Population: 227. Houses: 47. The manor belongs to Sir P. V. Pole, Bart. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. Value: £313. Patron: the Bishop of [Gloucester and Brisol]. The church is good."
Sutton under Brailes was located in Gloucestershire until 1844 when it was transferred to Warwickshire under the Counties (Detached Parts) Act 1844.
There is no article in Wikipedia entitled "Sutton-under-Brails, Warwickshire" or "Sutton-under-Brailes, Warwickshire", with or without hyphens.
Registration Districts
Shipston-on-Stour in Warwickshire (1837 - 1985)
South Warwickshire in Warwickshire (1985 - )
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Online sources which may also be helpful:
- GENUKI Gloucestershire and GENUKI Warwickshire give pointers to other archive sources as well as providing some details on each parish in the individual counties. The emphasis here is on ecclesiastical parishes (useful before 1837)
- A listing of all the Registration Districts in England and Wales since their introduction in 1837 and tables of the parishes that were part of each district and the time period covered with detailed notes on changes of parish name, mergers, etc. Do respect the copyright on this material.
- The FamilySearch Wiki for Gloucestershire and The FamilySearch Wiki for Warwickshireprovides a similar but not identical series of webpages to that provided by GENUKI
- A Vision of Britain through Time has a group of pages of statistical facts for almost every parish in the county
- Unfortunately, A History of the County of Gloucester in the Victoria County History series provided by the website British History Online does not cover this part of Gloucestershire. However, there is a series of 7 volumes for Warwickshire.
- Comparing a map of Gloucestershire parishes in 1900 with a map of Gloucestershire parishes made in the 1943 helps to illustrate how the county borders changed through this period.
- Ancestry.co.uk has recently added Gloucestershire Burials, 1813-1988; Confirmations, 1834-1913; Baptisms, 1813-1913; Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1813; and Marriages and Banns, 1754-1938. (entry dated 1 Aug 2015)
- Victoria County History - Warwickshire - Vol 5, pp 157-159 - Parish: Sutton under Brailes. British History Online. University of London (London, 1949).
Categories: Warwickshire, England | Sutton under Brailes, Warwickshire, England | Gloucestershire, England | Kington Hundred, Warwickshire, England | Westminster Hundred, Gloucestershire, England | Brailes Rural, Warwickshire, England | Shipston on Stour Rural, Warwickshire, England | Stratford on Avon District, Warwickshire, England
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