Ditchford Frary
Ditchford Frary was a village in Warwickshire, which was abandoned in the 16th century and has vanished.[1] One farm remains however. The village stood in the south-west of the county, by the Knee Brook, which forms the border with Gloucestershire.
A little upstream, in Gloucestershire, are the sites of two other abandoned mediæval villages: Lower Ditchford and Upper Ditchford.
- Location map: 52°1’59"N, 1°39’28"W
The village site is about halfway between Todenham to the south and Stretton-on-Fosse to the north-west. A footbridge crosses the Knee Brook at this point and a footpath between Todenham and Stretton runs through the earthworks which are all that remain of the village.
The Domesday Book of 1086 records that Ditchford Frary was held by Robert de Stafford.[2] At one time, the settlement included St Giles chapel.
In 1410, the village was recorded as being part of the Parish of Great Wolford.[3]
The chapel was a ruin by the 17th century and the rectory was annexed to Stretton in 1642.[2] Earthwork evidence of the chapel still existed at the time of the Ordnance Survey of 1967.[4]
References
- ↑ Record number MWA3008: Medieval Chapel at Ditchford Frary: WCC
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Parishes: Stretton-on-Fosse: A History of the County of Warwick - Volume 5 : page-153-157 (Victoria County History) (British History Online)
- ↑ Religious Belief and Ecclesiastical Careers in Late Medieval England page 174
- ↑ Medieval chapel at Ditchford Frary: Our Warwickshire
