Cookhill

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Cookhill
Worcestershire
Location
Grid reference: SP055584
Location: 52°13’26"N, 1°55’14"W
Data
Post town: Alcester
Postcode: B49
Local Government
Council: Redditch
Parliamentary
constituency: 		Redditch

Cookhill is a village in Worcestershire leaning against the county border with Warwickshire, marked here by the A441, which runs along the eastern edge of the village. The nearest town is Alcester two miles to the east in Warwickshire.

Close by is the site of the former Cookhill Priory, a Cistercian priory in the Middle Ages.

The village pub is the Nevill Arms.

History

In the Domesday Book; Cookhill is listed in the Hundred of Ash. The total population was of five households - 2 smallholders, 2 slaves and 1 burgess.

Churches

  • Church of England: St Paul's
  • Baptist

Outside links

 ("Wikimedia Commons" has material
about Cookhill)

References

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