Kineton is a village and
civil parish
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on the
River Dene
The River Dene is a small river in Warwickshire, England.
It is a tributary of the River Avon, Warwickshire, Avon, which it joins at Charlecote Park. The headwaters of the River Dene rise on the western slopes of the Burton Dassett Hills and f ...
in south-east
Warwickshire
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, England. The village is part of
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 co ...
, and in the
2001 census it had a population of 2,278, increasing to 2,337 at the 2011 Census.
Kineton is about ten miles (16 km) from the towns of
Banbury
Banbury is a historic market town on the River Cherwell in Oxfordshire, South East England. It had a population of 54,335 at the 2021 Census.
Banbury is a significant commercial and retail centre for the surrounding area of north Oxfordshire ...
to the south-east,
Warwick
Warwick ( ) is a market town, civil parish and the county town of Warwickshire in the Warwick District in England, adjacent to the River Avon. It is south of Coventry, and south-east of Birmingham. It is adjoined with Leamington Spa and Whi ...
and
Leamington Spa
Royal Leamington Spa, commonly known as Leamington Spa or simply Leamington (), is a spa town and civil parish in Warwickshire, England. Originally a small village called Leamington Priors, it grew into a spa town in the 18th century following ...
to the north, and
Stratford-upon-Avon
Stratford-upon-Avon (), commonly known as just Stratford, is a market town and civil parish in the Stratford-on-Avon district, in the county of Warwickshire, in the West Midlands region of England. It is situated on the River Avon, north-we ...
to the west. Nearby is the village of
Wellesbourne
Wellesbourne is a large village in the civil parish of Wellesbourne and Walton, in the county of Warwickshire, in the West Midlands region of the UK. In the 2021 census the parish, which also includes the hamlet of Walton, had a population o ...
with its historic
water mill
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,
Compton Verney House
Compton Verney House () is an 18th-century country mansion at Compton Verney near Kineton in Warwickshire, England. It is located on the west side of a lake north of the B4086 about north-west of Banbury. Today, it is the site of the Compton ...
art gallery
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, the
British Motor Museum
The British Motor Museum in Warwickshire, England holds the world's largest collection of historic British cars, with over 300 cars on display from the British Motor Industry Heritage Trust and the Jaguar Heritage Trust.
History
The creation ...
at
Gaydon
Gaydon is a civil parish and village in Warwickshire, England, situated between Leamington Spa and Banbury. In the 2001 census, the parish had a population of 376,
increasing to 446 at the 2011 Census.
The village is at the junction of the ...
, the
Burton Dassett Hills
Burton Dassett Hills Country Park is a country park in southeastern Warwickshire, England.
It was created as a country park in 1971 and is run by Warwickshire County Council. The area comprises a group of ironstone hills, which are named afte ...
country park and the battlefield of
Edgehill. Kineton, in the district historically known as the
Vale of the Red Horse
The Vale of Red Horse, also called the Vale of the Red Horse or Red Horse Vale, is a rural district in southern Warwickshire, England, lying between the escarpment of Edgehill and the northern Cotswolds around the valley of the Stour.''Proceedi ...
, can also be considered to be part of the informal area of
Banburyshire
Banbury is a historic market town on the River Cherwell in Oxfordshire, South East England. It had a population of 54,335 at the 2021 Census.
Banbury is a significant commercial and retail centre for the surrounding area of north Oxfordshire ...
.
Kineton district council ward covers Gaydon,
Lighthorne
Lighthorne is a village and civil parish in Warwickshire, England. It is about south of Leamington Spa. The population taken at the 2011 census was 361. Lighthorne is a small village in a valley and is near Moreton Morrell, Kineton and Welles ...
,
Lighthorne Heath
Lighthorne Heath is a village in the civil parish of Upper Lighthorne, in the Stratford-on-Avon District, in the county of Warwickshire, England. It is located some six miles to the south east of Leamington Spa and is very close to the M40 m ...
,
Compton Verney
Compton Verney is a parish and historic manor in the county of Warwickshire, England. The population taken at the 2011 census was 119. The surviving manor house is the Georgian mansion Compton Verney House.
Descent of the manor
The first ...
,
Combrook
Combrook (also spelt Combroke and - more rarely - Combrooke) is a small village of about 65 houses in rural Warwickshire, located near the junction of the Fosse Way (B4455 road), and the B4086 road between the villages of Wellesbourne and Kineto ...
, Little Kineton and Chadshunt, a population of 4,228 according to the 2001 census, rising to 4,320 at the 2011 census. The village has some areas of light industry but is largely agricultural; many residents
commute
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to nearby towns and cities for employment, including
Banbury
Banbury is a historic market town on the River Cherwell in Oxfordshire, South East England. It had a population of 54,335 at the 2021 Census.
Banbury is a significant commercial and retail centre for the surrounding area of north Oxfordshire ...
,
Warwick
Warwick ( ) is a market town, civil parish and the county town of Warwickshire in the Warwick District in England, adjacent to the River Avon. It is south of Coventry, and south-east of Birmingham. It is adjoined with Leamington Spa and Whi ...
and
Stratford-upon-Avon
Stratford-upon-Avon (), commonly known as just Stratford, is a market town and civil parish in the Stratford-on-Avon district, in the county of Warwickshire, in the West Midlands region of England. It is situated on the River Avon, north-we ...
.
History
![King John's Castle, Kineton - geograph](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0f/King_John%27s_Castle%2C_Kineton_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1491948.jpg)
The first recorded reference to Kineton was in 969, when Saxon
King Edgar granted some land here to a trusted counsellor.
The village is mentioned in the
Domesday Book
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as ''Kington''. On the outskirts of the village, at the foot of Pittern Hill, are the remains of the earthworks of a
motte-and-bailey
A motte-and-bailey castle is a European fortification with a wooden or stone keep situated on a raised area of ground called a motte, accompanied by a walled courtyard, or bailey, surrounded by a protective ditch and palisade. Relatively easy to ...
castle, known as ''King John's Castle'', so called because it is believed that
King John held a
Court Leet
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Etym ...
there. Kineton gave its name to the area of south-east Warwickshire known as
Kineton Hundred.
Early in the 13th century,
Stephen de Segrave
Stephen de Segrave (or Seagrove or Stephen Segrave or Stephen of Seagrave) (c. 1171 – 9 November 1241) was a medieval Chief Justiciar of England.
Life
He was born as the son of a certain Gilbert de Segrave of Segrave in Leicestershire, who h ...
had a Tuesday market in his manor of Kineton, and a fair on the eve and day of St Peter and St Paul. The market died out by 1840, when the
market house
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was pulled down and a school built on its site, but the fair on 5 February continued until recently.
For a period of the
English Civil War
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, Kineton was looted by
Prince Rupert
Prince Rupert of the Rhine, Duke of Cumberland, (17 December 1619 (O.S.) / 27 December (N.S.) – 29 November 1682 (O.S.)) was an English army officer, admiral, scientist and colonial governor. He first came to prominence as a Royalist cavalr ...
with part of the
Royalist
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army. This was after he had defeated
Sir James Ramsay, from the
Parliamentarians, and by doing this he failed to aid the rest of his army, thus leading to a neutral ending to the
Battle of Edgehill
The Battle of Edgehill (or Edge Hill) was a pitched battle of the First English Civil War. It was fought near Edge Hill and Kineton in southern Warwickshire on Sunday, 23 October 1642.
All attempts at constitutional compromise between ...
on 23 October 1642. A year later, in July 1643,
King Charles met with
Queen Henrietta Maria
Henrietta Maria (french: link=no, Henriette Marie; 25 November 1609 – 10 September 1669) was Queen of England, Scotland, and Ireland from her marriage to King Charles I on 13 June 1625 until Charles was executed on 30 January 1649. She was ...
at Kineton.
John Newton who lived from 1725 to 1807 and for a while lived in the village of Kineton where he is rumoured to have written the words to "Amazing Grace" in 1772 but there is no contemporary evidence for this.
William Kendall, co-builder of
Birmingham Town Hall
Birmingham Town Hall is a concert hall and venue for popular assemblies opened in 1834 and situated in Victoria Square, Birmingham, England. It is a Grade I listed building.
The hall underwent a major renovation between 2002 and 2007. It no ...
and subsequent Warwick
County Surveyor
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United Kingdom
Webb & Webb describe the increasing chaos that began to prevail within this same period in field of county surveying in England and Wales, with c ...
and Steward to the Earl of Warwick, lived in Little Kineton in 1841.
Military connections
During the
Second World War
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, Kineton served as a transit camp, with Polish and
Czechoslovakia
, rue, Чеськословеньско, , yi, טשעכאסלאוואקיי,
, common_name = Czechoslovakia
, life_span = 1918–19391945–1992
, p1 = Austria-Hungary
, image_p1 ...
n troops stationed there.
One of the UK's main military
ammunition depots is located partially within Kineton parish, and is known as the
Defence Storage and Distribution Agency
The Defence Storage and Distribution Agency was an executive agency of the Government of the United Kingdom under the Ministry of Defence (MoD). The DSDA operated from locations in the United Kingdom and northern Germany and was the storage and di ...
(DSDA), Kineton. It extends to several hundred acres and is linked to the main
Network Rail
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system by a branch line. The depot also stores spare
railway carriage
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s and trains on behalf of the various UK
train operating companies.
Partially within Kineton parish, from 1942 until 1977,
RAF Gaydon
Royal Air Force Gaydon or more simply RAF Gaydon is a former Royal Air Force station located east of Wellesbourne, Warwickshire and north west of Banbury, Oxfordshire, England.
RAF Gaydon opened in 1942 and is known for its role during the ...
operated as both a training unit and a front-line bomber base. In 1978, the site passed into civilian ownership and today contains the
British Motor Museum
The British Motor Museum in Warwickshire, England holds the world's largest collection of historic British cars, with over 300 cars on display from the British Motor Industry Heritage Trust and the Jaguar Heritage Trust.
History
The creation ...
, the headquarters and factory of sports car manufacturer
Aston Martin
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, and the
Jaguar Land Rover Gaydon Centre
The Jaguar Land Rover Gaydon Centre, which is situated north-west of the village of Gaydon, Warwickshire, England, is one of the principal engineering centres of Jaguar Land Rover and the location of the headquarters of Land Rover. The site ho ...
.
Present
![Kineton St Peters Church](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c3/Kineton_St_Peters_Church.jpg)
Near the centre of the village stands St Peter's Church. Work on the current building, which replaced an earlier church on the same site, began in the 13th century. A completed church was consecrated in 1315. Of this new building only the fine tower remains.
The rest of the building has been rebuilt and remodelled over the centuries. In the 18th century
Sanderson Miller
Sanderson Miller (1716 – 23 April 1780) was an English pioneer of Gothic revival architecture and landscape designer. He is noted for adding follies or other Picturesque garden buildings and features to the grounds of an estate.
Early life ...
enlarged the
nave
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and added two
transept
A transept (with two semitransepts) is a transverse part of any building, which lies across the main body of the building. In cruciform churches, a transept is an area set crosswise to the nave in a cruciform ("cross-shaped") building withi ...
s. A further remodelling campaign, which transformed the building into its current form, took place in the 19th century.
![Kineton Pittern Hill Windmill](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fe/Kineton_Pittern_Hill_Windmill.jpg)
In 2008, three new bells were cast to augment the bells to eight, one replacing an existing bell.
Taylors Eayre & Smith Ltd
John Taylor Bell Foundry (Loughborough) Limited, trading as John Taylor & Co and commonly known as Taylor's Bell Foundry, Taylor's of Loughborough, or simply Taylor's, is the world's largest working bell foundry. It is located in Loughborough, ...
of Loughborough carried out the work. The eight bells were rung for the first time on 5 November 2008.
The village also has a 19th-century
Methodist
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chapel and a 20th-century
Roman Catholic
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*Roman people, the people of ancient Rome
*'' Epistle to the Romans'', shortened to ''Romans'', a lette ...
church.
Pittern Hill Mill, north-west of the village, is a stone windmill of the 18th century.
Village shops include a Co-op store, a traditional butcher, a flower shop, an optician, an artisan bakery, a barber, hairdresser as well as the Nifty Needle curtain and soft furnishings/fabrics shop and workroom. There is a post office/convenience store and had a branch of
HSBC Bank HSBC Bank may refer to any one of the following principal local banks or divisions of the HSBC Group:
Asia-Pacific
* HSBC (Hong Kong)
** PayMe, its local payment service
* HSBC Bank (China)
* HSBC Bank Australia
* HSBC Bank India
* HSBC Bank M ...
now converted into a pharmacy (2017). The village has a veterinary practice,two estate agents, a café, a fish and chip shop, two
public houses
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, "The Swan", newly refurbished, and ''The
Carpenters Arms'' (which has a
Chinese
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* Something related to China
* Chinese people, people of Chinese nationality, citizenship, and/or ethnicity
**''Zhonghua minzu'', the supra-ethnic concept of the Chinese nation
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take-away
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inside) and a restaurant, ''Shukur's Brasserie'' (which offers
Bangladeshi
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Bangladeshi citizenship was formed in 1971, when the ...
and
Indian cuisine
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).
The village and surrounding area are served by Kineton
Church of England
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Primary School and
Kineton High School
Kineton High School is a mixed secondary school located in South Warwickshire, England within the village of Kineton. It is a non-selective academy school with a sixth form.
History
Prior to the school's construction, the village school had m ...
, which takes students aged 11–19.
Transport
Kineton is close to the
Fosse Way Roman Road and the
M40 motorway which links it to
Birmingham
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and London.
Regular
bus service
Public transport bus services are generally based on regular operation of transit buses along a route calling at agreed bus stops according to a published public transport timetable.
History of buses Origins
While there are indications ...
s to
Stratford upon Avon,
Banbury
Banbury is a historic market town on the River Cherwell in Oxfordshire, South East England. It had a population of 54,335 at the 2021 Census.
Banbury is a significant commercial and retail centre for the surrounding area of north Oxfordshire ...
and
Leamington Spa
Royal Leamington Spa, commonly known as Leamington Spa or simply Leamington (), is a spa town and civil parish in Warwickshire, England. Originally a small village called Leamington Priors, it grew into a spa town in the 18th century following ...
are operated by
Stagecoach
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and other independent companies.
The village was once served by the
Stratford-upon-Avon and Midland Junction Railway
Stratford-upon-Avon (), commonly known as just Stratford, is a market town and civil parish in the Stratford-on-Avon district, in the county of Warwickshire, in the West Midlands region of England. It is situated on the River Avon, north-we ...
between
Stratford-upon-Avon
Stratford-upon-Avon (), commonly known as just Stratford, is a market town and civil parish in the Stratford-on-Avon district, in the county of Warwickshire, in the West Midlands region of England. It is situated on the River Avon, north-we ...
and
Towcester
Towcester ( ) is an affluent market town in Northamptonshire, England. It currently lies in West Northamptonshire but was the former administrative headquarters of the South Northamptonshire district council.
Towcester is one of the oldest ...
.
Kineton railway station opened on 1 June 1871 and was situated on the Broom to
Fenny Compton
Fenny Compton is a village and parish in Warwickshire, England, about eight miles north of Banbury. In the 2001 census the parish had a population of 797, increasing to 808 at the 2011 census. Its name comes from the Anglo-Saxon ''Fennig Cumbt ...
line. The station closed in 1963 due to the
Beeching Axe
The Beeching cuts (also Beeching Axe) was a plan to increase the efficiency of the nationalised railway system in Great Britain. The plan was outlined in two reports: ''The Reshaping of British Railways'' (1963) and ''The Development of the ...
and the line itself closed two years later.
Sports
Kineton Sports and Social Club hosts
football
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,
cricket
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and
bowls
Bowls, also known as lawn bowls or lawn bowling, is a sport in which the objective is to roll biased balls so that they stop close to a smaller ball called a "jack" or "kitty". It is played on a bowling green, which may be flat (for "flat-gre ...
teams. The football team competes in the Leamington & District Sunday Football League, affiliated to the
Birmingham FA and the cricket side competes in the
Cotswold Hills League. Kinetonbcycle are a group cycling from Little Kineton at 19:15 on Wednesday nights covering around 25 miles with on and off-road routes and including a pub stop.
Kineton Hign School is the home of Wellesbourne Badminton Club who play in the Leamington and Banbury Leagues and have a club night every Tuesday from 7.30 pm, and South Warwickshire Junior Badminton Club who are a Badminton England Affiliated Club playing on a Friday night at 6.30 pm.
Name connection
The town of
Kyneton
Kyneton ( ) is a town in the Macedon Ranges region of Victoria, Australia. The Calder Freeway bypasses Kyneton to the north and east. Kyneton is on Dja Dja Wurrung, Taungurung and Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung country.
The town has four main streets: ...
in Victoria, Australia was named after Kineton in the 19th century.
[Blake, Les (1977) ''Place Names of Victoria'', p. 147. Melbourne: Rigby Limited. ]
See also
*
Banburyshire
Banbury is a historic market town on the River Cherwell in Oxfordshire, South East England. It had a population of 54,335 at the 2021 Census.
Banbury is a significant commercial and retail centre for the surrounding area of north Oxfordshire ...
References
External links
Kineton Community siteKineton NewsKineton High School siteKineton Primary School siteKineton Playgroup siteKineton village appraisal and plan 2003Defence Storage Distribution Agency at VillagebuzzKineton photo galleriesKineton & District Local History GroupWellesbourne Badminton Club
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