Fenny Compton

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Fenny Compton
Warwickshire
Fenny Compton Church (geograph 2407882).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.

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