Population Changes 1800 – 2000

The following table has been assembled from information in the Village Censuses, Village Directories and Electoral Roll information. During the period there are various changes in the two villages, discussed elsewhere on this site. As far as possible the complete parishes are considered, following the colour coded 1918 maps detailed here – i.e. including the properties on the eastern edge of Bretford which are included in the ecclesiastical parish of Kings Newnham.
Those numbers in bold in the table below have clickable links to underlying census data. The full census information can be found here.

Year	Church Lawford Population	Church Lawford Households	Kings Newnham Population	Kings Newnham Households
1801	302	58	117
1811	326		125
1821	351	66	134	See Note 2
1831	320		139
1841	333	71	156	35
1851	328	74	137	37
1861	313	69	144	36
1871	293	68	125	32
1881	267	72	125	32
1891	246	64	114	22
1901	200	58	93	27
1911	232	61	115	30
1921	276	65	117	29
1931	280	66	108	29
1941	271	74	117	33
1951	271	83	120	38
1961	449	113	101	38
1971		120		26
1981		136		24
1991		133		26
2001	368	129		26

Note 1 At the start of the 19th Century Church Lawford and Long Lawford were listed as having roughly an equal number of residents.

Note 2 The History of Warwickshire, produced in 1830, lists Kings Newnham as having 120 inhabitants in 1811, and 134 in 1821, which seems reasonable, but it suggests there were 88 households in 1821 which seems difficult to explain.

Note 3 The jump in population for Church Lawford between 1951 and 1961 results from the various post-war house building initiatives discussed here, along with the various post-war temporary accommodations such as the Mount Pleasant Caravan site. Further population figures for the 1960s were published in the Rugby Rural District Council Guide from that period. The figures for 1962 are 470 for Church Lawford and 100 for King’s Newnham, and for 1967 were 500 and 100 respectively.

Note 4 Although exact numbers in the villages aren’t available for the last quarter of the century, the number of adults on the electoral roll for Church Lawford was fairly static at around 230 during those 25 years. For King’s Newnham the adult count on the electoral roll was around 30.

Beyond this period, moving into the 21st century, the electoral register reforms meant that the public electoral roll is no longer a valid measure. However census data from 2021 suggests the population of Church Lawford was 432 (up from 418 in 2011). The equivalent data for King’s Newnham is not available (which may suggest the data for the two villages is combined in the 21st century totals shown here).