Milcote is a village and former

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, now in the parish of

Clifford Chambers and Milcote Clifford may refer to: People *Clifford (name), an English given name and surname, includes a list of people with that name *William Kingdon Clifford *Baron Clifford *Baron Clifford of Chudleigh *Baron de Clifford * Clifford baronets *Clifford fam ...

, 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

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, England. It falls within the ecclesiastical

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. It was made up of Upper Milcote or Milcote-on-Stour, site of Mount Grevill manor (begun by Ludovic Greville), and Lower Milcote or Milcote-on-Avon. Milcote was one of the estates which

Ceolred of Mercia Ceolred (died 716) was king of Mercia from 709 to 716. Mercia at the end of the 7th century By the end of the 7th century, England was almost entirely divided into kingdoms ruled by the Anglo-Saxons, who had come to Britain two hundred year ...

is said to have granted to

Evesham Abbey Evesham Abbey was founded by Saint Egwin at Evesham in Worcestershire, England between 700 and 710 following an alleged vision of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Virgin Mary by a swineherd by the name of Eof. According to the monastic history, Evesh ...

in 710. It was then appropriated by the

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, recovered by abbot Aethelwig, seized again by bishop

Odo of Bayeux Odo of Bayeux (died 1097) was a Norman nobleman who was a bishop of Bayeux in Normandy and was made Earl of Kent in England following the Norman Conquest. He was the maternal half-brother of duke, and later king, William the Conqueror, and w ...

and never returned to the Abbey. Much later it passed to the Greville family. In 2001 it had a population of 55. The village was served by

Milcote railway station Milcote railway station was a station on the Great Western Railway line between and , which in 1908 became part of the Great Western Railway's new main line between Birmingham and Cheltenham. The station's site, in the far south-western corne ...

from 1859 to 1966. It was originally part of the ecclesiastical and

Weston-on-Avon Weston-on-Avon is a village in Warwickshire, England. The population of the civil parish taken at the 2011 census was 170. It is about south-west of the town of Stratford-upon-Avon. History Originally in Gloucestershire, Weston-on-Avon was ...

, but became a civil parish in its own right in 1894. That civil parish was formed by a 2-mile-long 609-acre strip of land (with an average depth of 0.5 miles) running along the river Avon's south bank from its junction with the river Stour. Its population in 1894 was 50. It and the civil parish of

Clifford Chambers Clifford Chambers is a village and former civil parish two miles south of Stratford-upon-Avon town centre, in Warwickshire, England. It is on the B4632 road and one mile south of the A3400. It consists of 150 houses and the population of the par ...

merged on 1 April 2004 to form the civil parish of "Clifford Chambers and Milcote".

References

Villages in Warwickshire Former civil parishes in Warwickshire Stratford-on-Avon District {{Warwickshire-geo-stub