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Welford on Avon
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[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer (1868)]
"WELFORD, (or Welford on Avon) a parish partly in the Stratford division of the hundred of Barlichway, county Warwick, but chiefly in the upper division of Deerhurst hundred, county Gloucester, 4 miles S.W. of Stratford-on-Avon. It is situated on the river Avon, and contains the hamlets of Bickmarsh and Little Dorsington. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol, value £450. The church is dedicated to the Holy Trinity. The Wesleyans have a chapel. The parochial charities produce about £8 per annum. Earl Amherst is lord of the manor."
[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]
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- 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.
- Surname Index for Monumental Inscriptions for Welford on Avon, St. Peter taken from microfiche published by the Birmingham and Midland Society for Genealogy and Heraldry (BMSGH).
- The transcription of the section for Welford from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.
- Ask for a calculation of the distance from Welford on Avon to another place.
- The parish of Welford on Avon was transferred from Gloucestershire to Warwickshire in 1931.
[Ref: Handlist of the contents of the Gloucestershire Archives, 1995, et al.]
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