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Arley HUNDRED: Knightlow . UNION: Nuneaton |
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PARISH REGISTERS:
Christenings: 1557-1928 Marriages: 1557-1939 Births: 1557-1929 Banns 1755-1829,
1926-1956
BISHOP'S TRANSCRIPTS:
1660-1846
IGI: Christenings:
1557-1875, Marriages: 1557-1833
CHURCH: St Wilfrids
Arley is six miles
away from Nuneaton and the church is around six hundred years old. A coal mine
shaft was sunk in 1901 and many houses built for the miners. The village was
called Arlei in the Domesday Book of 1086 and gives the details that the land
was owned by the Countess Godiva.