A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
FLETCHAMSTEAD, a village in Stoneleigh parish, Warwick; adjacent to the Birmingham railway, 2 miles SW of Coventry. Over Fletchamstead here was given, as a manor, by Henry VIII., to John Beaumont, Esq.; passed to the Humberstons and the Leighs; and had a fine Gothic mansion erected on it by Sir Thomas Leigh, -which gave shelter for a short time to Charles I., and the remains of which were afterwards converted into a farm-house. Lower Fletchamstead belonged, in the time of Henry VII., to John Smith, one of the Commissioners for levying men against the threatened invasion by France; and was partly converted by his son into a park.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a village" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Stoneleigh AP/CP Warwickshire AncC |
| Place: | Fletchamstead |
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