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Croxall
Croxall is a hamlet and former civil parish in England that was historically in Derbyshire, but since 1895 has been part of Edingale parish, Staffordshire. The settlement today is mainly the Church of England parish church of St John and Croxall Hall. Population details for the 2011 census can be found under the civil parish. History In Domesday book, Croxall is mentioned as an outlying farm of Weston-on-Trent and listed among the lands given to Henry de Ferrers''Domesday Book: A Complete Translation''. London: Penguin, 2003. p. 745 by the King. The land given to HenryHenry de Ferrers held a considerable number of manors including a massive number in Derbyshire given to him by the King. These included obviously Croxall and Edingale which are now in Staffordshire but also Stretton en le Field which is now in Leicestershire. included of pasture that was valued at £4. The lordship of the manor of Croxall was held for several centuries by underlords of the Ferrers, the Curzon fa ...
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Croxall Hall
Croxall Hall is a restored and extended 16th century manor house situated in the small village of Croxall, Staffordshire (close to the southeastern border with Derbyshire and historically part of it). It is a Grade II* listed building. The manor of Croxall was owned by the Curzon Family, who rebuilt the old manor house in the late 16th century. Owners The Curzon Family Croxall, then in Derbyshire, was one of 140 Derbyshire Manors granted to Henry de Ferrers following the Norman Conquest of 1066. Croxall, together with the Manors of Edingale, Twyford and Kedleston were granted to Richard De Curzon; Richard was son of Giraline De Courson, a Breton who had fought in the conquest. The family were originally linked with the town of Notre-Dame-de-Courson in France. The family held the manors under the Ferrers Family until 1266 when, after the 6th Earl's rebellion against the King, the Ferrers' lands came under the Duchy of Lancaster. The family held the Manors under the Duc ...
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Listed Buildings In Edingale
Edingale is a civil parish in the district of Lichfield, Staffordshire, England. It contains 19 buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, three are listed at Grade II*, the middle of the three grades, and the others are at Grade II, the lowest grade. The parish contains the village of Edingale and the settlement of Croxall, and is otherwise rural. The listed buildings include two churches, memorials in one of the churchyards, a large house with an associated dovecote, smaller houses, cottages, farmhouses and farm buildings, the earliest of which are timber framed Timber framing (german: Holzfachwerk) and "post-and-beam" construction are traditional methods of building with heavy timbers, creating structures using squared-off and carefully fitted and joined timbers with joints secured by large wooden ..., and a bridge. __NOTOC__ Key Buildings References Citations Sources * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ...
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Croxall Lakes
Croxall Lakes is a nature reserve located between the villages of Croxall and Alrewas, Staffordshire, in the United Kingdom. The nature reserve comprises two lakes and grassland between them. The lakes were formed through the quarrying of sand and gravel deposits, these excavations subsequently flooded and were then restored to create the nature reserve. The site is managed by Staffordshire Wildlife Trust and owned by the National Forest Company. The reserve is an important stop off point for a wide variety of migrating birds due to its location at the meeting point of three rivers, the Trent, Tame and Mease. Location Croxall Lakes is located between the villages of Alrewas and Croxall in the south east of the county of Staffordshire in the Midlands of England. The lakes lie directly to the east of the National Memorial Arboretum and adjacent to the confluence of the River Tame and River Mease with the River Trent. The site owes its existence to its geology, which comprises Quat ...
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St John The Baptist's Church, Croxall
St John the Baptist's Church, Croxall is a Grade II* listed parish church in the Church of England in Croxall.The Buildings of England. Staffordshire. Nikolaus Pevsner. p.111. History The earliest parts of the church are the chancel of c.1200. The church is noted for its fine collection of memorials. Memorials *George Curzon (d. 1605) *Mary Curzon (d. 1612) *Henrie Curzon (d. 1639) *Christopher Horton (d. 1714) *Waltar Horton (d. 1716) *Christopher Horton (d. 1659) *Christopher Horton (d.1701) *Eusebius Horton (d. 1823) and Phoebe Horton (d. 1814) by Sir Francis Leggatt Chantrey *Harriet Louise Wilmot Horton (d. 1831) *Sir Robert Wilmot-Horton, 3rd Baronet (d. 1841) by Denman *Margaret Prinsep (d. 1843), Caroline Mary Prinsep (d. 1842), Frances Levett (d. 1835) by Reeves of Bath *Revd. Samuel Holworthy (d. 1838) See also *Grade II* listed buildings in Lichfield (district) There are over 20,000 Grade II* listed buildings in England. This page is a list of these buildin ...
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Edingale
Edingale is a village and civil parish in Lichfield District, Staffordshire, England.OS Explorer Map 245: The National Forest :(1:25 000) :Map Details
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It lies on the , around north of Tamworth. Historically, the village is shared with . In 2001 the parish had a population of 598, incr ...
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Prinsep
Prinsep may mean any of several notable members of the British Prinsep family. The family descended from John Prinsep, an 18th-century merchant who was the son of Rev. John Prinsep, rector of Saundby, Nottinghamshire, and Bicester, Oxfordshire. John Prinsep, his son, founded indigo production in India as well as the making of cotton fabrics in Bengal, opened a copper mint in India and was a founder of the Westminster Life Insurance Society in London, where he later served as Alderman and in Parliament. Prinsep arrived in India as a soldier in the army of the East India Company but became a merchant soon afterwards. During his 16 years in India, John Prinsep amassed a £40,000 fortune, which he used to set himself up as a London businessman and get himself elected to Parliament. Prinsep made two large fortunes and lost both. He was the first of three succeeding generations of Prinseps in India, all of whom were known for their artistic abilities. Among his descendants are the artist ...
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Lichfield (district)
Lichfield () is a local government district in Staffordshire, England. It is administered by Lichfield District Council, based in Lichfield. The dignity and privileges of the City of Lichfield are vested in the parish council of the 14 km² Lichfield civil parish. The non-metropolitan district of Lichfield covers nearly 25 times this area and its local authority is Lichfield District Council. The district was formed on 1 April 1974, under the Local Government Act 1972, by a merger of the existing City of Lichfield with most of the Lichfield Rural District. Geography The district includes areas in two parliamentary constituencies: Lichfield and Tamworth. Settlements within the district *Alrewas, Armitage * Blithbury, Burntwood *Chase Terrace, Chasetown, Chorley, Clifton Campville, Colton, Comberford, Croxall, Curborough *Drayton Bassett * Edingale, Elford, Elmhurst * Farewell, Fazeley, Fisherwick, Fradley * Gentleshaw * Hademore, Hammerwich, Hamstall Ridware ...
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Lichfield
Lichfield () is a cathedral city and civil parish in Staffordshire, England. Lichfield is situated roughly south-east of the county town of Stafford, south-east of Rugeley, north-east of Walsall, north-west of Tamworth and south-west of Burton Upon Trent. At the time of the 2011 Census, the population was estimated at 32,219 and the wider Lichfield District at 100,700. Notable for its three-spired medieval cathedral, Lichfield was the birthplace of Samuel Johnson, the writer of the first authoritative ''Dictionary of the English Language''. The city's recorded history began when Chad of Mercia arrived to establish his Bishopric in 669 AD and the settlement grew as the ecclesiastical centre of Mercia. In 2009, the Staffordshire Hoard, the largest hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold and silver metalwork, was found south-west of Lichfield. The development of the city was consolidated in the 12th century under Roger de Clinton, who fortified the Cathedral Close and also laid ou ...
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John Prinsep
John Prinsep (23 April 1748 – 30 November 1830) was born the son of a vicar in rural Oxfordshire, England, with limited horizons for advancement. He joined the East India Company as a cadet, travelling to Bombay, and was soon engaged in mercantile pursuits, eventually becoming the earliest British merchant to plant indigo, and becoming extremely wealthy in the process. Prinsep subsequently returned to England, where he became a London alderman and a member of parliament, but he eventually lost both large fortunes he created. He was the progenitor of an Anglo-Indian family of merchants, all of whom were artistically gifted. Life John Prinsep was born on 23 April 1748, the son of Rev. John Prinsep, BA graduate of Balliol College, Oxford and vicar of Bicester, Oxfordshire. The young Prinsep arrived in Bombay in 1771 as a cadet, shortly after the arrival of Warren Hastings as the first Governor-General of Bengal. The vicar's son and former London cloth merchant arrived in Calc ...
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Anglo-Normans
The Anglo-Normans ( nrf, Anglo-Normaunds, ang, Engel-Norðmandisca) were the medieval ruling class in England, composed mainly of a combination of ethnic Normans, French, Anglo-Saxons, Flemings and Bretons, following the Norman conquest. A small number of Normans had earlier befriended future Anglo-Saxon king of England, Edward the Confessor, during his exile in his mother's homeland of Normandy in northern France. When he returned to England some of them went with him, and so there were Normans already settled in England prior to the conquest. Edward's successor, Harold Godwinson, was defeated by Duke William the Conqueror of Normandy at the Battle of Hastings, leading to William's accession to the English throne. The victorious Normans formed a ruling class in Britain, distinct from (although inter-marrying with) the native populations. Over time their language evolved from the continental Old Norman to the distinct Anglo-Norman language. Anglo-Normans quickly establishe ...
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Lord Byron
George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824), known simply as Lord Byron, was an English romantic poet and Peerage of the United Kingdom, peer. He was one of the leading figures of the Romantic movement, and has been regarded as among the greatest of English poets. Among his best-known works are the lengthy Narrative poem, narratives ''Don Juan (poem), Don Juan'' and ''Childe Harold's Pilgrimage''; many of his shorter lyrics in ''Hebrew Melodies'' also became popular. Byron was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, later traveling extensively across Europe to places such as Italy, where he lived for seven years in Venice, Ravenna, and Pisa after he was forced to flee England due to lynching threats. During his stay in Italy, he frequently visited his friend and fellow poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. Later in life Byron joined the Greek War of Independence fighting the Ottoman Empire and died leading a campaign during that war, for which Greeks rev ...
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Catton Hall
Catton Hall is a country house near the boundary between Derbyshire and Staffordshire, within the civil parish of Catton. It gives its postal address as Walton-on-Trent although there was a village of Catton at one time. It is a Grade II* listed building. The Manor of Catton was acquired at the beginning of the 15th century by Roger Horton. Members of the family served as High Sheriff of Derbyshire. In the 19th century Anne Beatrix Horton, heiress of the estate, married Robert Wilmot thus creating the Wilmot-Horton family. On the death of the fifth Wilmot-Horton Baronet in 1887, the estate passed to his niece Augusta-Theresa who married in 1851 to Rev. Arthur Henry Anson, rector of Potterhanworth, Lincolnshire and son of Hon. Rev. Frederick Anson, Dean of Chester, born at the Anson family home Shugborough Hall. Catton Hall is now owned by the Neilson family, descendants of Anson-Horton family, descendants of the fifth Baronet, Rev. Sir George Wilmot-Horton. The manor house whi ...
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