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Little Wolford
Little Wolford is a hamlet and civil parish in the Stratford-on-Avon District, Stratford-on-Avon district of Warwickshire, England. With the neighbouring parish of Great Wolford it is part of 'The Wolfords'. Little Wolford is significant for its Grade II* Listed building, listed 15th- to 16th-century Little Wolford Manor. History According to ''A Dictionary of British Place Names'', Wolford derives from the Old English 'wulf' with 'weard', meaning a "place protected against wolves". ''The Concise Oxfordshire Dictionary of English Place-names'' adds that 'weard' might mean "guard", and as such might here be unique usage, as an "arrangement for protection, [or] fence", the whole name perhaps "enclosure to protect flocks from wolves".Ekwall, Eilert (1936); ''The Concise Oxfordshire Dictionary of English Place-names'', Oxford University Press, 4th ed. (1960), p.529 In the ''Domesday Book'', the settlement is variously listed as 'Ulware', 'Ulwarda' and 'Wolwarde', and in 1242 as 'Par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stratford-on-Avon District
Stratford-on-Avon is a local government district in southern Warwickshire, England. The district is named "Stratford-on-Avon" unlike its main town of Stratford-upon-Avon where the district council is based. The district is mostly rural and covers most of the southern half of Warwickshire. As well as Stratford, other significant places in the district includes the towns of Alcester, Southam, Shipston-on-Stour and Henley-in-Arden, and the large villages of Bidford-on-Avon, Studley and Wellesbourne, plus numerous other smaller villages and hamlets. It borders the Warwickshire districts of Warwick to the north, and Rugby to the north-east. It also borders the neighbouring counties of the West Midlands, Worcestershire, Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire, and Northamptonshire. History The district was formed on 1 April 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972 by the merger of the municipal borough of Stratford-upon-Avon, Alcester Rural District, Shipston-on-Stour Rural District, S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
