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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.
	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 - The Warwickshire Ancestors Project. This volunteer project aims to provide a "free-to-view" online searchable database of all the 19th century Warwickshire censuses, starting with the 1841 and 1891 censuses. W.A.P. forms part of the national FreeCens project.
Warwickshire 4 - The website for Warwickshire history and genealogy includes Little Histories of Cherington and Stourton, Farnborough and Stockton.

Cherington, Stourton and Sutton-under-Brailes community website		Opened 2009
Cherington and Stourton 1 - surnames on monumental inscriptions - for Stourton see also under "Whichford".
Cherington and Stourton 2 - Victoria County History online. Warwickshire, Kington Hundred (Volume 5). Online versions 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 little about the Sheldon tapestries, some of the earliest in the realm.
Weston 2 - Weston is in Long Compton parish. For "Long Com" and area, the link is the same as Cherington and Stourton 1 above.

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 visitor's commentary from www.thesealedknot.org.uk/knowbase/ on this fine Jacobean mansion.
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: If you find that the links from the above page are not working, try the version which was saved in 2006 in the "Wayback" Internet Archive, by clicking here.
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.