Spernall
Spernall is a remote village 4 miles (6.4 km) north of Alcester in the parish of Oldberrow, Morton Bagot, and Spernall, in the Stratford-on-Avon District of Warwickshire, England.
Spernall is a remote village 4 miles (6.4 km) north of Alcester in the parish of Oldberrow, Morton Bagot, and Spernall, in the Stratford-on-Avon District of Warwickshire, England. In the 2001 Census it had a population of 153. It is situated on the banks of the small River Arrow, the name meaning Spera's border. Early forms of the name are Spernore. and Spernoure in the 1327 Subsidy Roll. The village consists only of the church and rectory and a few scattered farms and cottages. At some time between 1195 and 1361 the parish was largely depopulated by pestilence, so that many of the villein tenements, which had hitherto accounted for almost the whole population, came into the hands of freemen. This may well refer to the Black Death; the priest at Spernall, Nicholas atte Yate, died in 1349 and there was another institution in 1351. In the 17th century the population seems to have mainly consisted of substantial farmers, for in 1625 it is described as a place with 'few or no poor at all in it and many wealthy inhabitants', and the Hearth Tax returns (1662–74) show the high average of about 2.5 hearths per house. By 1696, there were only two yeomen with an estate of £10 a year or more.
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Worth seeing in and around Spernall
4 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Coughton Court
Coughton Court is an English Tudor country house, situated on the main road between Studley and Alcester in Warwickshire. It is a Grade I listed building.
1.6 km · Grade I listed historic house museum in Stratford-on-Avon, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 02St Leonard's Church, Spernall
St Leonard's Church is a redundant church in Spernall, Warwickshire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building, and is under the care of the Friends of Friendless Churches.
100 m · church in Stratford-on-Avon, UK · Wikipedia - 03Roman Catholic Church of Saint Peter Paul and Elizabeth
St Peter and St Paul and St Elizabeth Catholic Church is a Catholic church built between 1851 and 1853 by the Throckmorton family in the grounds of their family home, Coughton Court. The church was commissioned by Sir Robert Throckmorton, 8th Baronet, in the years after the Catholic Emancipation Acts which would re-allow the profession of the Catholic faith officially for the first time since the Tudor period.
1.8 km · church in Stratford-on-Avon, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 04Studley Castle
Studley Castle is a 19th-century country house at Studley, Warwickshire, England. The Grade II* listed building is now occupied as a Warner Leisure Hotel but was once owned by the Lyttelton family before being bequeathed by Philip Lyttleton to his niece Dorothy, who married Francis Holyoake.
1.9 km · country house in Warwickshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Spernall
- Airports
- Birmingham (BHX), 23 km · East Midlands (EMA), 74 km · London Luton (LTN), 111 km
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Spernall91 km · quickest by road, 2h 5m · £10–13
- London → Spernall145 km · quickest by road, 3h 3m · £16–21
- Luton, Luton → Spernall107 km · quickest by road, 2h 39m · £12–17
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Next door to Spernall
Spernall is 25 km from Birmingham, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Studleyvillage and civil parish in the Stratford-on-Avon district of Warwickshire, England1.7 km
- Morton Bagotvillage and civil parish in Warwickshire, United Kingdom3.7 km
- Sambournehamlet in Warwickshire, England2.7 km
- Coughtonvillage and civil parish in Warwickshire, United Kingdom1.8 km
- Alne Endvillage in Warwickshire, England, UK4 km