Wilnecote, Warwickshire Genealogy

England   Warwickshire

Parish History
Wilnecote is a chapelry of Tamworth, Staffordshire Ancient Parish. Other places in the parish include: Tamworth Castle and Castle Liberty.

WILNECOTE, a chapelry, in the parish and union of Tamworth, Tamworth division of the hundred of Hemlingford, N. division of the county of Warwick, 2 miles (S. E. by S.) from Tamworth; containing 718 inhabitants. This chapelry, sometimes called Willowencote, comprises by measurement 1005 acres, chiefly pasture land. Collieries and limekilns have been established of late; and here is a station of the Birmingham and Derby railway. The living is a perpetual curacy; net income, £90; patron, the Vicar of Tamworth. The chapel, dedicated to the Holy Trinity, was rebuilt in the year 1821, by subscription, aided by a grant from the Incorporated Society.

From: 'Willoughby - Wilstrop', A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 581-584. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51410 Date accessed: 31 March 2011.

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Wilnecote and Castle Liberty like this:

WILNECOTE, a township in Tamworth parish, and a chapelry partly also in Polesworth parish, Warwick. The township lies on Watling-street, 1 mile W of the erby and Birmingham railway, and 2½ SE of Tamworth; and has a post-office under Tamworth, and a r. station jointly with Fazeley. Real property, £4,289; of which £250 are in mines. Pop. in 1851, 824; in 1861, 1,350. Houses, 267. The increase of pop. arose from the opening of coal mines. The property is much subdivided. W. Hall, Dosthill House, and Wilnecote Hall are chief residences. Bricks and tiles are made.—The chapelry was constituted in 1856. Pop. in 1861, 1,654. Houses, 329. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £178. Patron, the Vicar of Tamworth. The church is tolerable; and there are an Independent chapel and a national school.

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Poor Law Unions
Tamworth Poor Law Union, Staffordshire

Probate records
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