Kington (hundred)
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Kington or Kineton was a historic hundred of the county of Warwickshire
in England
. The hundred covered the southern part of the county, and lay south of Warwick
, between the River Avon
on the west and the River Itchen
on the east. It was formed in the 12th century out of four Domesday hundreds, these were:
Tremelau, which contained the parishes of Atherstone-on-Stour, Barford
, Butlers Marston
, Chadshunt
, Charlecote, Chesterton
, Comberton, Compton Verney
, Ettington
, Gaydon
, Halford
, Lighthorne
, Moreton Morrell
, Newbold Pacey, the Pillertons, Tachbrook, and Wasperton
.
Honesberie, containing Avon Dassett
, Burton Dassett
, Fenny Compton
, Farnborough
, part of Mollington
, Priors Hardwick
, Priors Marston
, Radway
, Ratley
, Shotteswell
, Warmington
, and Wormleighton
.
Fexhole, containing Brailes
, Cherington
, Compton Wynyates
, Honington
, Idlicote, Kineton
, Lapworth
, Oxhill
, Packwood, Tanworth, Tysoe
, Wellesbourne
with Walton
, and Whatcote
.
Berricestone, or Barcheston, containing Barcheston
, Barton-on-the Heath, Burmington
, part of Ilmington
, Long Compton
, Stretton-on-Fosse
, Whichford
, Whitchurch
, and Wolford.
None of these four Domesday hundreds occurs again outside the Survey, and by 1169 the 'sipesocha', or hundred, of Kington had taken their place. The hundred is said to have been granted by Henry II
to Walter son of Thurstan de Charlecote, the ancestor of the Lucy family
, to hold by a rent of 40s. During the reign of John
it was taken into the king's hands and farmed at 21 marks, in addition to which the issues of the court leet produced 61s. 4d., sheriff's aid £10, and 'wardpeni' 8s. 8d. In 1227 Henry III
inspected charters of Henry II and John confirming the hundred to William de Lucy and ordered that it should be restored to him. It had, however, come back to the Crown by 1236, when its farm was accounted for by William de Lucy as sheriff. From this time it was farmed out to various persons: as in 1270 Richard de Hersey, who paid 100 s. more than the old rent, Thomas Blaunkfront in 1317, John de Waltham in 1331, Geoffrey Oede in 1335, and Richard, Earl of Arundel, in 1356. A valuation of the issues of the hundred in 1367 shows that it was farmed at £8; the payments de certo of the vills amounted to £7 19s. 8d.; and those for 'warth' to 6s. 5d.
By the time of Dugdale (c. 1645) the only vills doing suit to the hundred court were Shotteswell, Warmington, Stretton-on-Fosse, part of Wellesbourne, Oxhill, Avon Dassett, Mollington, Halford, Barton-on-the-Heath, Ratley, Farnborough, and Aylston. At this time the hundred was divided into the constabularies
of Brailes
, Kineton
, Priors Marston
, and Tanworth, each under a High Constable; these were replaced in 1828 by the Petty Sessional divisions of Kineton
, Long Compton
, Mollington
and Warwick
. In the present century the four divisions have become Brailes
, Kineton
, Burton Dassett
and Warwick
.
In 1844 the parish of Sutton-under-Brailes, which up to that time had been an isolated part of Gloucestershire
entirely surrounded by Warwickshire, was transferred to this county. By the Transfer Order of 1931 the parishes of Clifford Chambers
, Dorsington
, Long Marston
, Preston-on-Stour
, Welford-on-Avon and Weston-on-Avon
were transferred from Gloucestershire, and those of Alderminster, Shipston-on-Stour, Tidmington, and Tredington from Worcestershire
. The history of these last four parish
es has already been recorded in V.C.H. Worcester
; the others will be treated under Gloucestershire
, to which county they belong historically, except Welford and Weston, of which large parts were always in Warwickshire. Similarly Mollington was from medieval times divided between Warwickshire and Oxfordshire
, but since 1895 has been entirely in the latter county, under which its history will be dealt with.
Warwickshire
Warwickshire is a landlocked non-metropolitan county in the West Midlands region of England. The county town is Warwick, although the largest town is Nuneaton. The county is famous for being the birthplace of William Shakespeare...
in England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
. The hundred covered the southern part of the county, and lay south of Warwick
Warwick
Warwick is the county town of Warwickshire, England. The town lies upon the River Avon, south of Coventry and just west of Leamington Spa and Whitnash with which it is conjoined. As of the 2001 United Kingdom census, it had a population of 23,350...
, between the River Avon
River Avon, Warwickshire
The River Avon or Avon is a river in or adjoining the counties of Leicestershire, Northamptonshire, Warwickshire, Worcestershire and Gloucestershire in the Midlands of England...
on the west and the River Itchen
River Itchen, Warwickshire
The River Itchen flows through east Warwickshire in England. It is a small river, about long, and its general course is from south to north....
on the east. It was formed in the 12th century out of four Domesday hundreds, these were:
Tremelau, which contained the parishes of Atherstone-on-Stour, Barford
Barford, Warwickshire
Barford is a village and civil parish in the Warwick district of Warwickshire, England, about three miles south of Warwick. According to the 2001 census the parish had a population of 1,171...
, Butlers Marston
Butlers Marston
Butlers Marston is a village and civil parish on the River Dene in south-eastern Warwickshire, England. The village is part of Stratford-on-Avon district, and in the 2001 census it had a population of 226....
, Chadshunt
Chadshunt
Chadshunt is a village and civil parish in the Stratford on Avon district, in the county of Warwickshire, England. Chadshunt is located in between the villages of Gaydon and Kineton. Chadshunt has a church called All Saints Church, Chadshunt....
, Charlecote, Chesterton
Chesterton, Warwickshire
Chesterton is a small village in Warwickshire, England. It is about five miles south of Leamington Spa, near the villages of Harbury and Lighthorne.-Parish:...
, Comberton, Compton Verney
Compton Verney
Compton Verney is a manor and parish in the county of Warwickshire, England.Compton Verney House is an 18th century country mansion which has been converted into an art gallery....
, Ettington
Ettington
Ettington is a village in Warwickshire, England. It is located eight kilometres south-east of Stratford upon Avon and is less than a mile west of the Fosse Way...
, Gaydon
Gaydon
Gaydon is a parish and village in Warwickshire, England, close to Leamington Spa. In the 2001 census, the parish had a population of 376.The village is at the junction of the B4100 and B4451 roads, a mile from Junction 12 of the M40 motorway, and is two miles north-east of Kineton.-Motor...
, Halford
Halford, Warwickshire
Halford is a small village and civil parish in the English county of Warwickshire. It is located south-east of Stratford-on-Avon.By the River Stour are the earthworks and buried remains of Halford Castle, a motte castle believed to be the predecessor of the present manor house....
, Lighthorne
Lighthorne
Lighthorne is a village in Warwickshire, England. It is about south of Leamington Spa.Lighthorne is a small village in a valley and is near Moreton Morrell, Kineton and Wellesbourne....
, Moreton Morrell
Moreton Morrell
Moreton Morrell is a village and civil parish in the county of Warwickshire, England. It is part of the historic hundred of Kington and is located about three and a half miles north west of the village of Kineton. The settlement was first mentioned in the Domesday Book as Moreton. From at least...
, Newbold Pacey, the Pillertons, Tachbrook, and Wasperton
Wasperton
Wasperton is a village and civil parish in the English county of Warwickshire.It is on the east bank of the Warwickshire Avon and is some south of the town of Warwick which is easily accessed by the A429 road.-External links:*...
.
Honesberie, containing Avon Dassett
Avon Dassett
Avon Dassett is a village and civil parish in the Stratford district of Warwickshire, England, nestling among the Burton Dassett Hills about four miles east of Kineton and seven miles north of Banbury in Oxfordshire...
, Burton Dassett
Burton Dassett
Burton Dassett is a parish and shrunken medieval village in Warwickshire. Much of the area is now the Burton Dassett Hills country park. It was enclosed for sheep farming by Sir Edward Belknap at the end of the 15th century....
, Fenny Compton
Fenny Compton
Fenny Compton is a village and parish in Warwickshire, England, about eight miles north of Banbury. In the 2001 census the parish had a population of 797. Its church of St. Peter and St. Clare was built in the 14th century...
, Farnborough
Farnborough, Warwickshire
Farnborough is a village and civil parish in Warwickshire, England. The village has a church, St. Botolphs, village hall and public house, The Inn at Farnborough.-References:*Warwickshire Towns & Villages, by Geoff Allen ISBN 1-85058-642-X...
, part of Mollington
Mollington, Oxfordshire
Mollington is a village and civil parish about north of Banbury in Oxfordshire, England. It has an area of about .-History:Æthelstan Ætheling, eldest son of Æthelred the Unready willed an estate at Mollington to his father in 1014 or 1015...
, Priors Hardwick
Priors Hardwick
Priors Hardwick is a village and civil parish in the Stratford district of Warwickshire, England. The name derives from the fact that it was originally a manor belonging to the Priors of Coventry.- History :...
, Priors Marston
Priors Marston
Priors Marston is a village in Warwickshire, England, southwest of Daventry. The Oxford Canal and Jurassic Way both run nearby. According to the United Kingdom Census 2001 the population of the parish is 506, most of whom live in the village....
, Radway
Radway
Radway is a village and civil parish in Warwickshire about north-west of Banbury in neighbouring Oxfordshire.The village is at the foot of Edge Hill and is notable for the Battle of Edgehill, one of the early major engagements of the English Civil War, which was fought in fields around the village...
, Ratley
Ratley
Ratley is a village in the civil parish of Ratley and Upton, South Warwickshire, England. It lies on the north west side of the Edge Hill escarpment about 200m above sea level...
, Shotteswell
Shotteswell
Shotteswell is a small village in south Warwickshire surrounded on three sides by Oxfordshire. It is located 4.5 miles north-west of Banbury and is part of Stratford-on-Avon district.-Overview:...
, Warmington
Warmington, Warwickshire
Warmington is a village in the English county of Warwickshire.Warmington is in the Stratford District Council area. Local matters are in the hands of Warmington and Arlescote parish council. The 2001 census records the parish as having a population of 297...
, and Wormleighton
Wormleighton
Wormleighton is a village in the county of Warwickshire, England.Although founded in the 15th century, it was abandoned after the English Civil War when the Spencer family home Wormleighton Manor was burned down in 1645. The village, however, refounded in the 19th century...
.
Fexhole, containing Brailes
Brailes
Brailes is a civil parish about east of Shipston-on-Stour in Warwickshire, England. It comprises the two villages of Lower and Upper Brailes but is often referred to as one village as the two adjoin each other...
, Cherington
Cherington
Cherington is a village and civil parish beside the River Stour about southeast of Shipston-on-Stour. Cherington is contiguous with the village of Stourton.-History:...
, Compton Wynyates
Compton Wynyates
Compton Wynyates is a country house in Warwickshire, England, a Grade I listed building. The Tudor period house, an example of Tudor architecture, is constructed of red brick and built around a central courtyard. It is castellated and turreted in parts. Following action in the Civil War, half...
, Honington
Honington, Warwickshire
Honington, Warwickshire is an English hamlet and parish in the Brailes division of the hundred of Kington, roughly two miles north of Shipston-on-Stour.The Village consists of approximately 60 houses that are contained within the Parish boundary....
, Idlicote, Kineton
Kineton
Kineton is a village and civil parish on the River Dene in south-eastern Warwickshire, England. The village is part of Stratford-on-Avon district, and in the 2001 census it had a population of 2,278....
, Lapworth
Lapworth
Lapworth is a village and civil parish situated in the east of the county of Warwickshire, England. It lies close to the border with the West Midlands and in the 2001 census had a population of 2,100....
, Oxhill
Oxhill, Warwickshire
Oxhill is a village in South Warwickshire, England, off the A422 road between Stratford-upon-Avon and Banbury. It lies in the administrative district of Stratford-on-Avon in the area known as the Vale of the Red Horse. The village is mentioned in the Domesday Book as "Octeselve" and has a 12th...
, Packwood, Tanworth, Tysoe
Tysoe
Tysoe is a civil parish located in Warwickshire, England, north-west of Banbury. The three main settlements in the parish, Upper, Middle and Lower Tysoe are on a hill, hence the respective village names. Upper and Middle Tysoe have now merged, whereas Lower Tysoe is still separate, a little...
, Wellesbourne
Wellesbourne
Wellesbourne is a large village and civil parish in the county of Warwickshire, in the West Midlands region of the UK. In the 2001 census the parish, which also includes the village of Walton, had a population of 5,691 Wellesbourne is a large village and civil parish in the county of Warwickshire,...
with Walton
Walton, Warwickshire
Walton is a small hamlet just south of Wellesbourne in Warwickshire, England. It is next to the River Dene and is most notable for Walton Hall which is now an hotel and spa. It is home to the Hamiltons who own the land...
, and Whatcote
Whatcote
Whatcote is a village and civil parish in Warwickshire, England, about northeast of Shipston on Stour.-Manor:The Domesday Book records that in 1086 Hugh de Grandmesnil, one of William the Conqueror's military commanders, owned the manor of Whatcote. In the latter half of the 14th century Thomas...
.
Berricestone, or Barcheston, containing Barcheston
Barcheston
Barcheston is a village and civil parish in the Stratford district of Warwickshire, England. It is on the east bank of the River Stour, opposite Shipston-on-Stour. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 134....
, Barton-on-the Heath, Burmington
Burmington
Burmington is a village and civil parish in Warwickshire, England, located south of Shipston-on-Stour....
, part of Ilmington
Ilmington
Ilmington is a village and civil parish about north-west of Shipston-on-Stour and south of Stratford-on-Avon in the Cotswolds in Warwickshire, England. Ilmington is the highest village in Warwickshire and is at the foot of the Ilmington Downs, which is the highest point in Warwickshire...
, Long Compton
Long Compton
Long Compton is a village and civil parish in Warwickshire, England near the extreme southern tip of Warwickshire, and close to the border with Oxfordshire. It is part of the district of Stratford-on-Avon and in the 2001 census had a population of 705....
, Stretton-on-Fosse
Stretton-on-Fosse
Stretton-on-Fosse is a small village and civil parish with fewer than 200 houses, most built of Cotswold stone or locally-made red brick, situated on the Warwickshire-Gloucestershire border on the fringe of the Cotswold Hills.-History:...
, Whichford
Whichford
Whichford is a small village and civil parish in the south of the English county of Warwickshire.-Population/Location:According to the 2001 census the parish had a population of 318. It is located about 15 miles south of Stratford-upon-Avon and is on the edge of the Cotswolds.-Attractions:For a...
, Whitchurch
Whitchurch, Warwickshire
Whitchurch is a small hamlet south of Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire, England. it used to be a detached part of Worcestershire until 1931.It consists of 5 properties. There are 19 people living in Whitchurch....
, and Wolford.
None of these four Domesday hundreds occurs again outside the Survey, and by 1169 the 'sipesocha', or hundred, of Kington had taken their place. The hundred is said to have been granted by Henry II
Henry II of England
Henry II ruled as King of England , Count of Anjou, Count of Maine, Duke of Normandy, Duke of Aquitaine, Duke of Gascony, Count of Nantes, Lord of Ireland and, at various times, controlled parts of Wales, Scotland and western France. Henry, the great-grandson of William the Conqueror, was the...
to Walter son of Thurstan de Charlecote, the ancestor of the Lucy family
De Lucy
de Lucy or de Luci is the surname of an old Norman noble family originating from Lucé in Normandy, one of the great baronial Anglo-Norman families which became rooted in England after the Norman conquest. The first records are about Adrian de Luci who went into England after William the Conqueror...
, to hold by a rent of 40s. During the reign of John
John of England
John , also known as John Lackland , was King of England from 6 April 1199 until his death...
it was taken into the king's hands and farmed at 21 marks, in addition to which the issues of the court leet produced 61s. 4d., sheriff's aid £10, and 'wardpeni' 8s. 8d. In 1227 Henry III
Henry III of England
Henry III was the son and successor of John as King of England, reigning for 56 years from 1216 until his death. His contemporaries knew him as Henry of Winchester. He was the first child king in England since the reign of Æthelred the Unready...
inspected charters of Henry II and John confirming the hundred to William de Lucy and ordered that it should be restored to him. It had, however, come back to the Crown by 1236, when its farm was accounted for by William de Lucy as sheriff. From this time it was farmed out to various persons: as in 1270 Richard de Hersey, who paid 100 s. more than the old rent, Thomas Blaunkfront in 1317, John de Waltham in 1331, Geoffrey Oede in 1335, and Richard, Earl of Arundel, in 1356. A valuation of the issues of the hundred in 1367 shows that it was farmed at £8; the payments de certo of the vills amounted to £7 19s. 8d.; and those for 'warth' to 6s. 5d.
By the time of Dugdale (c. 1645) the only vills doing suit to the hundred court were Shotteswell, Warmington, Stretton-on-Fosse, part of Wellesbourne, Oxhill, Avon Dassett, Mollington, Halford, Barton-on-the-Heath, Ratley, Farnborough, and Aylston. At this time the hundred was divided into the constabularies
Constabulary
Constabulary may have several definitions.*A civil, non-paramilitary force consisting of police officers called constables. This is the usual definition in Britain, in which all county police forces once bore the title...
of Brailes
Brailes
Brailes is a civil parish about east of Shipston-on-Stour in Warwickshire, England. It comprises the two villages of Lower and Upper Brailes but is often referred to as one village as the two adjoin each other...
, Kineton
Kineton
Kineton is a village and civil parish on the River Dene in south-eastern Warwickshire, England. The village is part of Stratford-on-Avon district, and in the 2001 census it had a population of 2,278....
, Priors Marston
Priors Marston
Priors Marston is a village in Warwickshire, England, southwest of Daventry. The Oxford Canal and Jurassic Way both run nearby. According to the United Kingdom Census 2001 the population of the parish is 506, most of whom live in the village....
, and Tanworth, each under a High Constable; these were replaced in 1828 by the Petty Sessional divisions of Kineton
Kineton
Kineton is a village and civil parish on the River Dene in south-eastern Warwickshire, England. The village is part of Stratford-on-Avon district, and in the 2001 census it had a population of 2,278....
, Long Compton
Long Compton
Long Compton is a village and civil parish in Warwickshire, England near the extreme southern tip of Warwickshire, and close to the border with Oxfordshire. It is part of the district of Stratford-on-Avon and in the 2001 census had a population of 705....
, Mollington
Mollington, Oxfordshire
Mollington is a village and civil parish about north of Banbury in Oxfordshire, England. It has an area of about .-History:Æthelstan Ætheling, eldest son of Æthelred the Unready willed an estate at Mollington to his father in 1014 or 1015...
and Warwick
Warwick
Warwick is the county town of Warwickshire, England. The town lies upon the River Avon, south of Coventry and just west of Leamington Spa and Whitnash with which it is conjoined. As of the 2001 United Kingdom census, it had a population of 23,350...
. In the present century the four divisions have become Brailes
Brailes
Brailes is a civil parish about east of Shipston-on-Stour in Warwickshire, England. It comprises the two villages of Lower and Upper Brailes but is often referred to as one village as the two adjoin each other...
, Kineton
Kineton
Kineton is a village and civil parish on the River Dene in south-eastern Warwickshire, England. The village is part of Stratford-on-Avon district, and in the 2001 census it had a population of 2,278....
, Burton Dassett
Burton Dassett
Burton Dassett is a parish and shrunken medieval village in Warwickshire. Much of the area is now the Burton Dassett Hills country park. It was enclosed for sheep farming by Sir Edward Belknap at the end of the 15th century....
and Warwick
Warwick
Warwick is the county town of Warwickshire, England. The town lies upon the River Avon, south of Coventry and just west of Leamington Spa and Whitnash with which it is conjoined. As of the 2001 United Kingdom census, it had a population of 23,350...
.
In 1844 the parish of Sutton-under-Brailes, which up to that time had been an isolated part of Gloucestershire
Gloucestershire
Gloucestershire is a county in South West England. The county comprises part of the Cotswold Hills, part of the flat fertile valley of the River Severn, and the entire Forest of Dean....
entirely surrounded by Warwickshire, was transferred to this county. By the Transfer Order of 1931 the parishes of Clifford Chambers
Clifford Chambers
Clifford Chambers is a village two miles south of Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, on the B4632 and one mile south of the A3400. It consists of some 150 houses and the population of the parish in the 2001 census was 418. Until 2004 the village was in its own parish but it is now part of the...
, Dorsington
Dorsington
Dorsington is a civil parish in the Stratford-on-Avon district, in the county of Warwickshire, England. Dorsington was in Gloucestershire until it was transferred to Warwickshire in 1931. It is located 2¾ miles West of Milcote railway station. It has a church called Church of St Peter. Dorsington...
, Long Marston
Long Marston, Warwickshire
Long Marston is a village about southwest of Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire, England. The southern and western boundaries of the parish also form part of the county boundary with Worcestershire.-History:...
, Preston-on-Stour
Preston-on-Stour
Preston-on-Stour is a village and civil parish in Warwickshire, England found some four kilometres south of Stratford-on-Avon. As the village name suggests the River Stour flows along its eastern fringe and the A3400 runs about 1 kilometre east. The village was historically part of Gloucestershire...
, Welford-on-Avon and Weston-on-Avon
Weston-on-Avon
Weston-on-Avon is a village which was recorded in the Domesday Book. Originally in Gloucestershire, it was transferred to Warwickshire in 1931...
were transferred from Gloucestershire, and those of Alderminster, Shipston-on-Stour, Tidmington, and Tredington from Worcestershire
Worcestershire
Worcestershire is a non-metropolitan county, established in antiquity, located in the West Midlands region of England. For Eurostat purposes it is a NUTS 3 region and is one of three counties that comprise the "Herefordshire, Worcestershire and Warwickshire" NUTS 2 region...
. The history of these last four parish
Parish
A parish is a territorial unit historically under the pastoral care and clerical jurisdiction of one parish priest, who might be assisted in his pastoral duties by a curate or curates - also priests but not the parish priest - from a more or less central parish church with its associated organization...
es has already been recorded in V.C.H. Worcester
Worcester
The City of Worcester, commonly known as Worcester, , is a city and county town of Worcestershire in the West Midlands of England. Worcester is situated some southwest of Birmingham and north of Gloucester, and has an approximate population of 94,000 people. The River Severn runs through the...
; the others will be treated under Gloucestershire
Gloucestershire
Gloucestershire is a county in South West England. The county comprises part of the Cotswold Hills, part of the flat fertile valley of the River Severn, and the entire Forest of Dean....
, to which county they belong historically, except Welford and Weston, of which large parts were always in Warwickshire. Similarly Mollington was from medieval times divided between Warwickshire and Oxfordshire
Oxfordshire
Oxfordshire is a county in the South East region of England, bordering on Warwickshire and Northamptonshire , Buckinghamshire , Berkshire , Wiltshire and Gloucestershire ....
, but since 1895 has been entirely in the latter county, under which its history will be dealt with.