Many village resources are stored in the Warwickshire Archive at the Records Centre in Warwick. To illustrate the sort of resources relating to the two villages that are available to be viewed an outline list has been included below – but there is much more:
Register of baptisms, 1575-1984;
registers of marriages, 1575-1982;
register of banns, 1925-;
registers of burials, 1575-1916;
Minutes of PCC, 1959-1996;
minutes of Parish Council meetings 1946-74.
electoral roll (as maintained by the Church), 1927-1960;
Records relating to the rebuilding of St Peters in the 1870s
other parish records; correspondence and accounts, 1968-1998 (includes detailed history in Albert Cotton letters)
Valuation book for Church Lawford – various dates in first part of twentieth century
Monumental inscriptions of St. Peter’s Church Lawford and St. Lawrence’s Kings Newnham (1981)
Churchyard Flora of St. Peter’s Church Lawford (1980-81)
The Worth Townsend Family Collection (with many photographs, especially of Kings Newnham)
The Family Collection of the Croft / Crofts Family
Sale catalogue of the King’s Newnham and Church Lawford estates of the Duke of Buccleuch, listing numerous properties in Brinklow, King’s Newnham, Church Lawford and Dunchurch containing in all 4,473 acres (printed, with photographs)
registers of services, 1898-1974;
accounts of overseers of the poor (Church Lawford) [1759]-1783;
accounts of constable (Kings Newnham), 1769-1894;
There are also various images and postcards held in the collection.
Details of the Records Office and how to visit are here.