Charlecote is a small village and

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south of

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, on the River Avon, in the

Stratford-on-Avon Stratford-upon-Avon ( ), commonly known as Stratford, is a market town and civil parish in the Stratford-on-Avon district, in the county of Warwickshire, in the West Midlands region of England. It is situated on the River Avon, north-west of ...

district, in the county of

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, England. In 2011 the

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had a population of 194. The parish touches

Wasperton Wasperton is a village and civil parish in the English county of Warwickshire. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 153. It is on the east bank of the River Avon and is some south of the town of Warwick which is easily ac ...

Newbold Pacey Newbold Pacey is a village and civil parish south of Warwick, in the Stratford-on-Avon district of Warwickshire, England. The parish includes the hamlet of Ashorne and the parish council is called "Newbold Pacey & Ashorne Parish Council". In 20 ...

, Wellesbourne and Walton,

Stratford-upon-Avon Stratford-upon-Avon ( ), commonly known as Stratford, is a market town and civil parish in the Stratford-on-Avon (district), Stratford-on-Avon district, in the county of Warwickshire, in the West Midlands (region), West Midlands region of Engl ...

, Loxley and

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. Most of the village is a

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. The soil is rich

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and lies on

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and

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Features

There are 39

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in Charlecote. Charlecote has a

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, a 16th-century park called

Charlecote Park Charlecote Park () is a grand 16th-century country house, surrounded by its own deer park, on the banks of the River Avon in Charlecote near Wellesbourne, about east of Stratford-upon-Avon and south of Warwick in Warwickshire, England. It h ...

and a church called

St Leonard Leonard of Noblac (also Leonard of Limoges or Leonard of Noblet; also known as Lienard, Linhart, Lenart, Leonhard, Léonard, Leonardo, Annard; died 559) is a Frankish saint closely associated with the town and abbey of Saint-Léonard-de-Noblat, ...

's Church which was entirely rebuilt in 1851. There are earthworks of a deserted

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village called "Charlecote" in Charlecote Park. There was also possibly another

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in the

called Hunscote. The site of Thelsford Priory is in the parish.

History

The name "Charlecote" means "Free peasants' cottage(s)". Charlecote was recorded in the

Domesday Book Domesday Book ( ; the Middle English spelling of "Doomsday Book") is a manuscript record of the Great Survey of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 at the behest of William the Conqueror. The manuscript was originally known by ...

as ''Cerlecote''. On the 25th of March 1886 a part of Wellesbourne Mountford

was transferred to the parish. "Charle Cot" is an alternative name from historical writing for "Charlecote", and "Charlcote" is an alternative name for the parish unit.

References

External links

{{authority control Villages in Warwickshire Civil parishes in Warwickshire Stratford-on-Avon District