CHURCHILL NR KIDDERMINSTER

Descriptive Notes:
Sometimes 'Churchill in Halfshire'

Directories:
CHURCHILL, a parish in the lower division of the hundred of HALFSHIRE, county of WORCESTER, 3½ miles (N. E. by E.) from Kidderminster, containing 141 inhabitants. The living is a discharged rectory, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Worcester, rated in the king's books at £5. 6. 8, and in the patronage of Lord Lyttelton. The church is dedicated to St. James. Here is a chalybeate spring, which was formerly much frequented. [Topographical Dictionary of England 1831 by Samuel Lewis]

Status:
Ancient Parish [25]
Abolished civilly in 1933 to help create Churchill & Blakedown Civil Parish [25]
Blakedown, formerly in the parish of Hagley, was in 1888 transferred for ecclesiastical purposes only to Churchill in Halfshire.[5]

Location:
O.S. Ref: SO879793
About 3½ miles N.E. of Kidderminster along the A456
Ismere is ½ mile N.W.; Wannerton 1 mile S.W. [57]

Parish Church:
St. James the Great

Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction:
Archdeaconry & Diocese of Worcester until 1921, Archdeaconry of Dudley & Diocese of Worcester (1921 - *) [25]

Hundred:
Lower Halfshire [15] [25] [28]

Poor Law Union:
Kidderminster [3] [25]

Adjoining Parishes:
Kinver (STS); Hagley; Clent; Broom; Chaddesley Corbett, Kidderminster; Wolverley [1]

Parish Registers:

Churchill & Blakedown		Coverage	Source
Microform at WLHC	Christenings	1540-1965	[5]
	Marriages	1541-1965	[5]
	Burials	1540-1965	[5]

Blakedown		Coverage	Source
Microform at WLHC	Christenings	1872-1965	[5]
	Marriages	1882-1965	[5]
	Burials	1872-1965	[5]
	Banns	1905-65	[5]
Originals at WRO	Christenings	1882-1978	[12]

Churchill		Coverage	Source
Microform at WLHC	Banns	1754-1924	[5]

Bishops' Transcripts:
Begin 1612 Worcestershire Library and History Centre [22]

International Genealogical Index (IGI):
[19]

		Coverage
Bishops' Transcripts	Births / Christenings	1612-1640; 1660-1700 (70%)

Register Copies:
Marriages 1564-1812 Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Record Office [71]

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