Fenny Compton is a village and parish in

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, about eight miles north of

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. In the 2001 census the parish had a population of 797, increasing to 808 at the 2011 census. Its name comes from the

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''Fennig Cumbtūn'' meaning "marshy farmstead in a valley". In 1498 Sir William Cope, who served as Cofferer of the Household of Henry VII from 1494 to 1505 (in the absence at that time of a Treasurer of the Household he carried out the duties of that office as well), was granted the Lordships of Wormleighton and Fenny Compton, part of the lands of Simon de Montford who had been attainted in 1495. He later sold the lands to the

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, later of Althorpe. The Parish church of

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and St. Clare was built in the 13th century and is a

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listed building. The village has a doctor's consulting-room, a small

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store, a popular local pub located centrally and another pub on the outskirts. The old part of the village has many notable buildings including the Woad House, Knotts Cottage, the Red House, the Old School House and the Hollies. Fenny Compton is small but had two railway stations, Fenny Compton on the

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route from to , and Fenny Compton West on the

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and Midland Junction Railway route from to

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. Th
GWR station
and SMJ station were built alongside each other controlled by a joint signal box. The Fenny Compton Railway Station (Great Western from Birmingham Snow Hill to

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and the London, Midland & Scottish Railway branch line from to ) closed in 1964 apart from the railway line from Fenny Compton to CAD

Kineton Kineton is a village and civil parish on the River Dene in south-east Warwickshire, England. The village is part of Stratford-on-Avon district, and in the 2001 census it had a population of 2,278, increasing to 2,337 at the 2011 Census. Ki ...

. The village was struck by an F0/T1 tornado on 23 November 1981, as part of the record-breaking nationwide tornado outbreak on that day.

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*https://web.archive.org/web/20050901200128/http://www.bmsgh.org/parish/warw/tyaiw/fennycompton.html *http://www.warwickshirerailways.com/index.htm Villages in Warwickshire {{Warwickshire-geo-stub

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