Flecknoe

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Flecknoe
Warwickshire

Flecknoe village hall
Location
Location: 52°16’12"N, 1°15’0"W
Data
Population: 212  (2001)
Post town: Rugby
Postcode: CV23
Dialling code: 01788
Local Government
Council: Rugby
Parliamentary
constituency:
Kenilworth and Southam

Flecknoe is a village in the Knightlow hundred of Warwickshire, one mile west of the border with Northamptonshire. The village is the largest settlement within the parish of Wolfhampcote, and has a population of around 200. The village was mentioned in the Domesday Book as Flachenho, probably meaning "Flecca's hill".[1] The village is shown as Fleckno on the Christopher Saxton map of 1637.

Flecknoe is quite an isolated village, it is located on a hill, one mile from the nearest main road (the A425 Southam - Daventry road) and is connected only by narrow lanes. Flecknoe has a small church, dedicated to St Mark, which was built in 1891. An older chapel in the village dating from 1837 is now a private house. The village formerly had a school, which is now the village hall. On the outskirts of the village is a derelict brick building which is the remains of a Second World War camp.[1]

The village also has a pub called the Old Olive Bush.[2]

The Grand Union Canal runs in the plain to the north of the village,[1] which also contains the remain of the former Weedon to Leamington railway line. Flecknoe once had a railway station on this line. The station was over a mile north of the village and effectively in the middle of nowhere, consequently it was an early victim of British Railways' closure programme, the last passenger train running on 3 November 1952. However, the line survived carrying freight until 2 December 1963.[3] To the east of the village are the remains of the former Great Central Main Line.

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Geoff, Allen (2000). Warwickshire Towns & Villages. Sigma Press. p. 55. ISBN 1-85058-642-X. 
  2. "The Old Olive Bush Pub Flecknoe". Geograph.org. https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1693607. Retrieved 3 November 2019. 
  3. "Flecknoe Station". Warwickshire Railways. http://www.warwickshirerailways.com/lms/flecknoe.htm. Retrieved 17 March 2018. 

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