Place:Welford on Avon, Gloucestershire, England

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Welford on Avon is a village of around 1,800 inhabitants situated some 4 miles (6 km) west-southwest of the town of Stratford upon Avon in the county of Warwickshire, England. The village sits within a bend of the River Avon.

In 1894 the Warwickshire part of the parish of Welford on Avon became the separate parish of Bickmarsh, and thereafter the remaining area of Welford on Avon was wholly in Gloucestershire, until it was transferred to Warwickshire in 1931.

Welford on Avon was part of Marston Sicca Rural District in Gloucestershire. A further explanation will be found under Marston Sicca Rural District where a map of the area is included.

Research Tips

• Original source material relating to Welford on Avon, and other parishes in Diocese of Warwick may be found at the Warwickshire County Record Office; with the exeception of Bishops Transcripts, which (if they exist) should be found at Gloucestershire Archives in Gloucester.

Online sources which may also be helpful:

• Welford on Avon from A History of the County of Warwick: Volume 5, Kington Hundred. Originally published by Victoria County History, London, 1949.
• GENUKI gives pointers to other archive sources as well as providing some details on each parish in the county. 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. Respect the copyright on this material.
• The FamilySearch Wiki for Gloucestershire provides 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