Stretton on Fosse Warwickshire Family History Guide

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Stretton on Fosse is an Ancient Parish in the county of Warwickshire.

Alternative names: Stretton-on-the-Foss

Other places in the parish include: Lower Ditchford and Ditchford.

Parish church: St. Peter

Parish registers begin: 1538

Nonconformists include: Baptist and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Stretton on Fosse Parish Registers

These records, which span both Warwickshire and Worcestershire archives, include digitized records of baptisms, marriages, banns, and burials including images and indexed transcriptions.

Baptism, Marriage and Burial Records

Stretton on Fosse, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812

Stretton on Fosse, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1812-1922

Marriage and Banns Records

Stretton on Fosse, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1947

Death and Burial Records

Stretton on Fosse, Church of England Deaths and Burials, 1813-1997

Parish History

Stretton on Fosse

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

Stretton-on-the-Foss, a parish, with a village, in Shipston-on-Stour district, Warwick; on the Fosse way, 4 miles NNE of Moreton r. station. Post town, Moreton-in-the-Marsh. Acres, 1,939. Real property, £2,165. Pop., 435. Houses, 99. The property is sub-divided. The living is a rectory, united with Ditchford, in the diocese of Worcester. Value, £288. Patron, Mrs. Fitzgerald. The church was rebuilt in 1842. There are a free school, and charities £15.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales 1850

Stretton-on-the-Foss, 3 miles S.W. Shipston-on-Stour. P. 434

Source: Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales; Second Edition; C. W. Leonard, London; 1850.

Ditchford

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

DITCHFORD (Lower), a hamlet in Stretton-on-the-Foss parish, Warwick; adjacent to the West Midland railway, and to the boundary with Worcester and Gloucester, 2¾ miles N by W of Moreton-in-the-Marsh. It was formerly a parish; and it still ranks as a rectory, annexed to the rectory of Stretton-on-the-Foss, in the diocese of Worcester; but it has no church.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1845

Ditchford (St. Giles), a parish, in the union of Shipston-upon-Stour, Brails division of the hundred of Kington, S. division of the county of Warwick, 3 miles (S. W.) from Shipston. The living is a rectory, annexed, in 1642, to the rectory of Stretton-on-the-Foss, and valued in the King’s books at £6 : the church has been demolished.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis Fifth Edition Published London; by S. Lewis and Co., 13, Finsbury Place, South. M. DCCC. XLV.

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Administration

  • County: Warwickshire
  • Civil Registration District: Shipston on Stour
  • Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Worcester (Episcopal Consistory)
  • Diocese: Worcester
  • Rural Deanery: Blockley
  • Poor Law Union: Shipston on Stour
  • Hundred: Kington
  • Province: Canterbury