Darlingscott

Darlingscott
Worcestershire, Warwickshire
Darlingscott House and Lower Farmhouse
Location
Grid reference:	SP2343
Location:	52°4’38"N, 1°39’42"W
Data
Post town:	Shipston-on-Stour
Postcode:	CV35
Dialling code:	01608
Local Government
Council:	Stratford-on-Avon
Parliamentary constituency:	Stratford-on-Avon

Darlingscott is a small settlement in a detached part of Worcestershire, locally situate in Warwickshire. It is two miles north-west of Shipston-on-Stour in the same detached part, and two miles south-east of Ilmington in Warwickshire proper. The Fosse Way, a major Roman road (now marked by the modern A429 trunk road) passes close by to the south-east. Population details can be found under Tredington.

The hamlet is isolated in the gentle hills that fill the south of Warwickshire, on the lane between Shipton-on-Stour and Ilmington, and may be found seven and a half miles south of Stratford-upon-Avon.

Parish church

The parish church, St Mary The Virgin, is in the neighbouring village of Ilmington. A church has stood here in some form since the early 11th century. Today's church is a Norman edifice, and reckoned to have one of the finest bell towers in Warwickshire. The tower has a peal of eight bells and a fine recently restored organ.

Robert Thomson of Kilburn worked on the interior, and within can be found eleven carved mice he included in the decoration. The church also contains 'the Apple Map', celebrating the variety of apple trees in the village.

St Mary's is in the benefice with Preston-on-Stour, Whitchurch, Tredington with Darlingscote and Stretton-on-Fosse.

Darlingscott has its own small church, built as a chapel of ease in the late 19th century, lying at the western edge of the village.

Outside links

("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Darlingscott)

• [http://ilmington.org.uk/st_marys.html St Mary's Church, Darlingscott