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In February 1930 Warwickshire County Council made an application under the Local Government Act 1888 for an alteration of the county's boundary. The council sought to annex the entire Marston Sicca RD along with the parishes of Admington and Quinton in the neighbouring Campden Rural District. [4] With the coming into force of the Local ...
www.history.ac.uk /research /victoria-county-history The Victoria History of the Counties of England , commonly known as the Victoria County History or the VCH , is an English history project which began in 1899 with the aim of creating an encyclopaedic history of each of the historic counties of England , and was dedicated to Queen Victoria .
The first elections to the county council were held in January 1889 and it formally came into being on 1 April 1889. On that day it held its first official meeting at the Shire Hall in Warwick, the courthouse which had served as the meeting place for the quarter sessions which preceded the county council. John Dugdale, the Conservative MP for ...
Pillerton Hersey is a village and civil parish about 5.5 miles (9 km) north of Shipston-on-Stour in Warwickshire, England. The village is on a stream that flows northwest to join the River Dene . The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 170.
Warwickshire County Record Office is the county record office for Warwickshire, England. Its purpose is to collect, preserve and make available archives relating to the history of the county and its people dating from the early 12th to the 21st century. It is located in the town of Warwick, and is owned and run by Warwickshire County Council.
Coat of Arms of Warwickshire. This is about the history of the County of Warwick situated in the English Midlands.Historically, bounded to the north-west by Staffordshire, by Leicestershire to the north-east, Northamptonshire to the east, Worcestershire to the west, Oxfordshire to the south, Gloucestershire to the south-west, an exclave of Derbyshire to the far north, and less than 400 yards ...
The Wiltshire Victoria County History, properly called The Victoria History of the County of Wiltshire but commonly referred to as VCH Wiltshire, is an encyclopaedic history of the county of Wiltshire in England. It forms part of the overall Victoria County History of England founded in 1899 in honour of Queen Victoria. With eighteen volumes ...
A History of the County of Warwick, Volume 5: Kington Hundred. Victoria County History. pp. 17– 26. Warwickshire Federation of Women's Institutes (1988). The Warwickshire Village Book. Countryside Books. p. 26. Woodward, Alfred (2005). A Pictorial History of Brailes: Lower Brailes. The Alfred Woodward Collection. Vol. 1. Vale Press. ISBN ...