Ilmington / Foxcote (General)

by slowhands , proud of his ancient Dean Forest roots, Wednesday, April 03, 2013, 13:52 (4254 days ago) @ jmj9

ILMINGTON

Acreage: 3,325.
Population: 1911, 576; 1921, 536; 1931, 531.
Until 1931 this parish formed the centre of a detached portion of the county of Warwick surrounded on the north and east by Worcestershire and on the west by Gloucestershire. In that year, however, the intervening Worcestershire parishes were annexed to Warwickshire. Ilmington is a long narrow parish, 4 miles from north to south with a breadth varying from less than a mile up to 2 miles. The ground is very hilly, rising from 225 ft. in the north where the road from Stratford-on-Avon to Chipping Campden enters the parish to 833 ft. where the same road crosses the southwestern boundary.

In this high ground of the Ilmington Downs are several quarries, formerly worked both for building stone and road metal. Between the Downs and the village Nebsworth Hill is crossed by a track, known as Pig Lane, which may have been used in Roman times to connect the Ricknield Street and the Fosse Way. A little north of, and below, this track is a small rectangular earthwork which has been considered a Roman camp but is more probably medieval. (fn. 1)

Half a mile due south of this is the hamlet of Foxcote, lying in a hollow with Windmill Hill to the east of it. A windmill belonging to the manor is mentioned as early as 1295 (fn. 2) and as late as 1697. (fn. 3) The southern extremity of the parish is occupied by the hamlet of Compton Scorpion.

From: 'Parishes: Ilmington', A History of the County of Warwick: Volume 5: Kington hundred (1949), pp. 98-103. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=57050 Date accessed: 03 April 2013.

•"ILMINGTON, a parish comprising the small hamlet of Lark-Stoke in the upper division of the hundred of Kiftsgate, county of Gloucester, but chiefly in a detached part of the Kington division of the hundred of Kington, county of Warwick, 4 miles (N.W. by W.) from Shipston upon Stour".
(Ref: A Topological Dictionary of England; Samuel Lewis, 1831)

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