Fenny Compton
| Fenny Compton | |
| Warwickshire | |
|---|---|
.jpg) SS Peter and Clare parish church | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SP417523 |
| Location: | 52°10’1"N, 1°23’24"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 808 (2011) |
| Post town: | Southam |
| Postcode: | CV47 |
| Dialling code: | 01295 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Stratford-on-Avon |
Fenny Compton is a village and parish in Warwickshire, about eight miles north of Banbury.
In the 2001 census the parish had a population of 797, increasing to 808 at the 2011 census.[1] Its name comes from the Anglo-Saxon Fennig Cumbtūn meaning "marshy farmstead in a valley".
The Parish church of St Peter and St Clare was built in the 14th century and is a Grade-II* listed building.[2]
The village has a doctor's consulting-room, a small Co-op Food 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 stations, one on the Great Western Railway route from Oxford to Birmingham, the other being on the Stratford-upon-Avon and Midland Junction Railway route from Bicester to Broom. The 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 to London and the LMS branch line from Stratford Upon Avon to Blisworth) closed in 1964 apart from the railway line from Fenny Compton to CAD Kineton.
References
- ↑ "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11123410&c=fenny+compton+cp&d=16&e=62&g=6472119&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1451299718969&enc=1. Retrieved 28 December 2015.
- ↑ "Name: CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST CLARE List entry Number: 1355534". Historic England. https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1355534. Retrieved 10 January 2016.
Outdide links
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Fenny Compton) |
- http://www.fennycompton.com
- https://web.archive.org/web/20050901200128/http://www.bmsgh.org/parish/warw/tyaiw/fennycompton.html
- http://www.warwickshirerailways.com/index.htm
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