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SOLIHULL REGISTRATION DISTRICT

Registration County : Warwickshire.
Created
: 1.7.1837.
Sub-districts : Knowle, Solihull, Tanworth.
GRO volumes : XVI (1837–51), 6d (1852–1946), 9c (1946–74).
Registers now held by : Solihull, Warwickshire (Warwick), Gloucestershire and Birmingham.

Table 1: List of Places in Solihull Registration District

Civil Parish

County

From

To

Comments

Baddesley Clinton

Warwickshire

1837

1932

See Table 2, note (o).

Balsall

Warwickshire

1837

1932

See Table 2, note (f).

Barston

Warwickshire

1837

1932

See Table 2, note (f).

Bushwood

Warwickshire

1837

1932

See Table 2, note (o).

Elmdon

Warwickshire

1837

1932

Abolished 1.4.1932 and incorporated into the parishes of Solihull Urban and Bickenhill. See also Table 2, note (g).

Knowle

Warwickshire

1837

1932

Abolished 1.4.1932 and incorporated into the parishes of Solihull Urban, Balsall, and Lapworth. See also Table 2, notes (h) and (p).

Lapworth

Warwickshire

1837

1932

See Table 2, notes (k) and (o).

Nuthurst

Warwickshire

1837

1932

Abolished 1.4.1932 and incorporated into the parishes of Tanworth and Solihull Urban. See also Table 2, note (l).

Packwood

Warwickshire

1837

1932

Abolished 1.4.1932 and incorporated into the parishes of Solihull Urban and Lapworth. See also Table 2, note (q).

Solihull

Warwickshire

1837

1932

Abolished 1.4.1932 and incorporated into the parishes of Solihull Urban, Tanworth, and Hampton in Arden. See also Table 2, notes (a), (e), (i) and (m).

Solihull Urban

Warwickshire

1932

1974

Created 1.4.1932 out of the parishes of Solihull, Knowle, Tanworth, Packwood, Hampton in Arden, Elmdon, Sheldon, Lapworth, and Nuthurst. See also Table 2, notes (j) and (r) to (x).

Tanworth

Warwickshire

1837

1932

See Table 2, notes (b) and (n).

Yardley

Worcestershire

1837

1912

Abolished 9.11.1912 and incorporated into the parish of Birmingham. See also Table 2, notes (c) and (d).

Table 2: Boundary Changes affecting Solihull Registration District

Date of Change

Note

Description of Change

Population transferred

17.8.1877

(a)

Gained a part of the parish of Solihull (which until 17.8.1877 formed a detached part of the parish of Bickenhill, known as the Lyndon Quarter) from Meriden registration district.

770 in 1881

1.11.1895

(b)

Gained part of the parish of Tanworth (which until 30.9.1895 formed part of the parish of Wootton Wawen) from Stratford on Avon registration district.

105 in 1891

1.10.1912

(c)

Lost part of the parish of Birmingham (which until 1.4.1912 formed part of the parish of Yardley) to Aston registration district.

59087 in 1911

(d)

Lost part of the parish of Birmingham (which until 1.4.1912 formed part of the parish of Yardley) to Kings Norton registration district.

78 in 1911

1.4.1932

(e)

Lost part of the parish of Birmingham (which until 1.4.1931 formed part of the parish of Solihull) to Birmingham South registration district.

322 in 1931

(f)

Lost the parishes of Balsall and Barston to Meriden registration district.

2331 in 1931

(g)

Lost part of the parish of Elmdon (which became part of the parish of Bickenhill on 1.4.1932) to Meriden registration district.

65 in 1931

(h)

Lost part of the parish of Knowle (which became part of the parish of Balsall on 1.4.1932) to Meriden registration district.

109 in 1931

(i)

Lost part of the parish of Solihull (which became part of the parish of Hampton in Arden on 1.4.1932) to Meriden registration district.

0 in 1931

(j)

Gained parts of the parish of Solihull Urban (which until 1.4.1932 formed parts of the parishes of Hampton in Arden and Sheldon) from Meriden registration district.

242 in 1931

(k)

Lost part of the parish of Lapworth (which became part of the parish of Tanworth on 1.4.1932) to Stratford on Avon registration district.

77 in 1931

(l)

Lost part of the parish of Nuthurst (which became part of the parish of Tanworth on 1.4.1932) to Stratford on Avon registration district.

94 in 1931

(m)

Lost part of the parish of Solihull (which became part of the parish of Tanworth on 1.4.1932) to Stratford on Avon registration district.

189 in 1931

(n)

Lost the parish of Tanworth to Stratford on Avon registration district.

1410 in 1931

(o)

Lost the parishes of Baddesley Clinton, Bushwood, and Lapworth, to Warwick & Leamington registration district.

1009 in 1931

(p)

Lost part of the parish of Knowle (which became part of the parish of Lapworth on 1.4.1932) to Warwick & Leamington registration district.

93 in 1931

(q)

Lost part of the parish of Packwood (which became part of the parish of Lapworth on 1.4.1932) to Warwick & Leamington registration district.

69 in 1931

1.4.1964

(r)

Lost part of the parish of Solihull Urban (which became part of the parish of Birmingham on 1.4.1964) to Birmingham registration district.  

(s)

Gained part of the parish of Solihull Urban (which until 1.4.1964 formed part of the parish of Birmingham) from Birmingham registration district.  

(t)

Lost part of the parish of Solihull Urban (which became part of the parish of Wythall on 1.4.1964) to Bromsgrove registration district.  

(u)

Lost parts of the parish of Solihull Urban (which became parts of the parishes of Balsall, Bickenhill, and Hampton in Arden on 1.4.1964) to Meriden registration district.  

(v)

Gained parts of the parish of Solihull Urban (which until 1.4.1964 formed parts of the parishes of Balsall, Bickenhill, and Hampton in Arden) from Meriden registration district.  

(w)

Lost part of the parish of Solihull Urban (which became part of the parish of Hockley Heath on 1.4.1964) to Stratford on Avon registration district.  

(x)

Lost part of the parish of Solihull Urban (which became part of the parish of Lapworth on 1.4.1964) to Warwick & Leamington registration district.  

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