Village People- TREDINGTON "The farm of Trydda's people" To quote David Franks "Tredington is geographically a large village, and has a substantial number of marriage entries in the register, over 800 in the period up to 1754 alone, but it also seldom appears on the list. It may suffer from the fact that it was for a long time part of Worcestershire, so Warwickshire family historians tend not to search it. The deep south has this problem of the intermingling of four counties, Warwickshire, Gloucestershire, Worcestershire and Oxfordshire, all with their records in different places, and many of the parishes having been moved from one county to another at different times. Even the dioceses that the parishes belonged to have a convoluted history! Tredington was a Peculiar, which makes researching wills a nightmare. The people who lived there didn't take any account of county boundaries in their marrying and moving to new places, of course. The records are in many different places, including Gloucester, the far side of the county, which makes searches very difficult, and the IGI extracted records are notoriously bad for this area." Format is as before please. Subject line- Village People -Tredington List your surname interests and dates for the village Any resources you have found/own that may be useful. Good hunting Wendy

The church, dedicated to St Gregory, has a spectacular 210 ft steeple - link to a photo. http://www.divine-inspiration.org.uk/church.php?id=31 I must have passed this village many many times as it is situated just off the Old Fosse Way, a Roman road which ran, NE-SW, from Lincoln to Exeter. The stretch which by-passes Tredington is long and straight - or was during 1960s - I see that they have inserted a roundabout to the N of the village in more recent times. Anne Paling SHEFFIELD, U.K.

Well, you learn something new on this List every day! I never knew that SE Warwickshire was and is called "The Felden"! [Called The Felden (area of 'felds') - to distinguish this area from the mainly wooded Arden Forest to the north?] Anne Paling SHEFFIELD, U.K.