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Wootton Wawen / ˈ w ʊ t ən ˈ w oʊ. ən / is a village and civil parish in the Stratford-on-Avon district of Warwickshire, England.The village is on the A3400 in mid-western Warwickshire, about 20 miles (32 km) from Birmingham, about 2 miles (3 km) south of Henley-in-Arden and about 6.5 miles (10 km) north of Stratford-upon-Avon.
a parcel of Wootton Wawen, with possibly a single monk, if any; dissolution unknown; church was rebuilt mid-14th and 15th century granted to Sir Roland Lenthall for life 1415; possessed by the Provost and Fellows of King's College, Cambridge 1443; church in parochial use after suppression; abandoned 1793; now in ruins West Wretham Grange ...
Wootton Wawen Priory: Saxon minster land granted by King Ethelbald of Mercia between 723 and 737; no further reference to that establishment; Benedictine monks alien house: dependent on Conches; founded after 1086: church and other endowments granted by Robert de Tony soon after the Norman Conquest; granted to the Carthusians at Coventry 1398;
Wootton Hall, a house in Wootton Wawen; GWR 4900 Class 4979 Wootton Hall, a preserved steam locomotive This page was last edited on 7 May 2022, at 19:18 (UTC). Text ...
Not long after the Norman conquest Robert De Stafford gave the church of Wootton with a hide of land nearby and another hide at 'Doversele' to the Benedictine Abbey of St. Peter de Castellion of Conches in Normandy which had been established in 1035 [1] by his father, Roger de Tonei . They established a small alien priory here a prior and one ...
Wootton Wawen Aqueduct is one of three aqueducts on a 6 km length of the Stratford-upon-Avon Canal in Warwickshire. All are unusual in that the towpaths are at the level of the canal bottom. This aqueduct is just outside Wootton Wawen, where the canal crosses the A3400 main road.
Bearley is part of the Wootton Wawen ward of Stratford-on-Avon District Council and represented by Councillor Ian Shenton, Conservative Party. [7] Nationally it is part of Stratford-on-Avon parliamentary constituency, whose current Member of Parliament following the 2024 general election is Manuela Perteghella of the Liberal Democrat Party.
The first creation came in the Peerage of England in 1643 in favour of Sir Charles Smyth, who became Baron Carrington of Wootton Wawen, Warwickshire. Only a few days later he was created Viscount Carrington in the Peerage of Ireland. He was succeeded by his two sons, but in 1706 the titles became extinct.