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The amount of information on the internet about the two villages themselves is perhaps in proportion to their small size, but here are a few pages that may be of interest. The links are checked from time to time (see date on right), but please let us know if any no longer work.		Links checked and updated 19 Jan 2012
	See "Warwickshire 2"

PLACES

Warwickshire 1- the Warwickshire County Record Office. They hold many documents on Cherington and Stourton.
Warwickshire 2 - The fascinating Windows on Warwickshire site features resources from public collections e.g. Warwickshire Museum and Record Office, and has a collection of old photographs relating to Cherington and Stourton.
Warwickshire 3 - 19th century censuses. On this website: Cherington and Stourton. Other places: a lot of hard work by volunteers has given us the luxury of online transcriptions of all the Warwickshire returns for four censuses, free to view and download for our researches. The 1881 census for the whole of Britain is on the Family Search website, while the 1841/1861/1891 Warwickshire censuses come under the Warwickshire Ancestors Project, completed as part of an ongoing British project including FreeCens, FreeReg (for parish registers) and FreeBMD, a transcription of the Civil Registration index of births, marriages and deaths for England and Wales.
Warwickshire 4 - The website for Warwickshire history and genealogy is the gateway to this site and to pages relevant to the villages of Farnborough, Snitterfield and Stockton.

Cherington, Stourton and Sutton-under-Brailes community website
Cherington and Stourton 1 - surnames on monumental inscriptions - for Stourton see also under "Whichford". The site lists surnames, by parish, for the whole of Warwickshire.
Cherington and Stourton 2 - the Victoria County History (VCH), in British History Online. Look at "A History of the County of Warwick, Kington Hundred" (Volume 5). Online versions of the VCH give the whole text but not all illustrations, for copyright reasons. A significant part of the text for Cherington is devoted to the church.
Cherington 1 - the Parish Church as it was in 1927, pictured by artist William Albert Green (1907-1983), on the website dedicated to him.
Cherington 2 - The Cherington Arms public house website.

Weston 1- a website devoted to the Sheldon Tapestries, some of the earliest in the realm.		2011
Weston 2 - Weston is in the parish of Long Compton: this is a link to their parish website.

Whichford 1 - same as Cherington and Stourton 1 above. Stourton was a hamlet of Whichford until 1910.

Banburyshire - the Banburyshire website. The area around the market town of Banbury, including parts of Oxfordshire, Warwickshire and Northamptonshire, is sometimes known as "Banburyshire". The site, devoted to Banburyshire family and local history, has a map of the area, on the fringes of which appear Cherington and Stourton. There is also a mailing list.

The former home of author Margaret Dickins' sister and cousin is open to the public:
Chastleton House 1 - opening times and visitor information.
Chastleton House 2 - a commentary on this fine Jacobean mansion by a visitor from The Sealed Knot society.
Chastleton House 3 - a little anecdote.

WW1 AND WW2

World War One 1 - The Evesham Journal newspaper Roll of Honour 1914-15 (transcribed by Malcolm Farmer). NOTE: The original pages containing the transcriptions have sadly disappeared, but fortunately, the content was saved in 2006 in the "Wayback" Internet Archive, to which this link leads.
World War One 2 - the story of the British Army in the Great War ...
World War One 3 - what happened to the horses?

World Wars One & Two 1 - The Commonwealth War Graves Commission website holds information about U.K. and Commonwealth military casualties.
World Wars One & Two 2 - the site details over 1,000 U.K. War Memorials and some overseas. The Cherington and Stourton entry is based on the Little History of Cherington and Stourton WW1 page.

TOPICS

Bells 1 - the BBC web for Coventry & Warwickshire ran this story on the appeal.
Bells 2 - the website of The Central Council of Church Bell Ringers is extremely informative, and thanks are due for the use of their clear diagram of a bell and old-style fittings, reproduced on these pages.
Bells 3 - the aptitude test for would-be bell-ringers is from Sherborne Teaching Aid no. 6 ©Pam Copson 1988, which was also the source of some of the fascinating statistics about bells and change-ringing. More information via this link.

Clergy database (Church of England 1540 - 1835: before clerical directories existed).

GENEALOGY - SURNAMES

Baughan - John Baughan, a "First Fleeter", was deported to Australia in 1787.
Timms - Timms surname website including Cherington and Stourton roots (Holtom, Jarrett, etc.).
Webb - Richard Webb was born in Stowerton (Stourton) in 1818 and emigrated to Michigan in 1845.
Welles - Thomas Welles of Stourton became Governor of Connecticut, USA.

A LITTLE HISTORY IN THE OPEN LIBRARY

openlibrary.org - "One web page for every book ever published. It's a lofty, but achievable, goal." Margaret Dickins' works number among the claimed twenty million plus so far recorded by the Open Library, part-funded by The University of California.

LOCATING INFORMATION ON YOUR ANCESTRY

ancestor-search.info is Suzanne & Richard Brown's outstanding non-commercial U.K. site offering guidance on where to find information on English and Welsh ancestry. It provides a wide range of links to sources of information both on and off line. Extremely useful pages for both beginners and experienced researchers. California.