England
& Wales Hardwicke Marriage Index |
The ParishThe parish of Warkworth lies in the extreme southwest of Northamptonshire forming a section of the border with neighbouring Oxfordshire. Warkworth is located just 2 miles east of the Oxfordshire market town of Banbury and sits just over a mile south of the A422 road which connects Banbury with Brackley. There is very little to Warwkworth, just a collection of farms and cottage, indeed the parish was for many years largely moribund with its rather few parishioners attending nearby Middleton Cheney and the church in poor condition. Like many parishes in this area the economy was underpinned by farming, here a mixed farming regime would have been in place. Modern developments have come to the area, a branch railway line briefly connected Banbury with Brackley but that has since disappeared but the modern M42 motorway cleaves a path between the hamlet and its larger neighbour, Banbury. Small streams drain the parish into the nearby River Cherwell which heads to eventually join the Thames and thus enters the North Sea through the capital. Warkworth sits on the southern end of a ridge of higher land at 130 metres above the sea, the ridge ascends northwards reaching just over 160 metres to the west of Middleton Cheney. Warkworth's population may have been small but its parish was fairly extensive for its county, covering 2,900 there would, however, have been barely 50 parishioners. Warkworth is not specifically mentioned in Domesday Book. |
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Register No | Covering Dates | Deposited With | Register Style | Quality Standard | Comments |
1 |
3rd February 1814 - 26th October 1836 |
Northamptonshire Archives & Heritage - Reference -
341P/001 |
Standard Rose style preprinted and prenumbered Marriage
register |
Grade 1 Register - Few issues noted and a low likelihood
of misreads |
None |
Banbury
St Mary, Oxfordshire
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Banbury
St Mary, Oxfordshire
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Middleton
Cheney All Saints
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Banbury
St Mary, Oxfordshire
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Kings
Sutton St Peter & St Paul
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