Lower Shuckburgh is a small village and former
civil parish, now in the parish of Upper and Lower Shuckburgh, (which in the 2001 census had a population of 82) in the Stratford-on-Avon district, in eastern
Warwickshire, England. In 1961 the parish had a population of 74. On 1 April 1988 the parish was abolished to form "Upper and Lower Shuckburgh".
The village lies on the
A425 road between
Southam and
Daventry. Just north of the village is the
Oxford Canal. On Beacon Hill, just south of the village, is the
deserted village
An abandoned village is a village that has, for some reason, been deserted. In many countries, and throughout history, thousands of villages have been deserted for a variety of causes. Abandonment of villages is often related to epidemic, f ...
of Upper Shuckburgh after which the parish is partly named.
The most notable buildings in the village are the
Church of St John the Baptist, designed by
John Croft, which dates from 1864 and is built in
Gothic
Gothic or Gothics may refer to:
People and languages
*Goths or Gothic people, the ethnonym of a group of East Germanic tribes
**Gothic language, an extinct East Germanic language spoken by the Goths
**Crimean Gothic, the Gothic language spoken b ...
style, and
Shuckburgh Hall
Shuckburgh Hall is a privately owned country house mansion at Lower Shuckburgh, Warwickshire, near to Daventry in Northamptonshire.
The estate has been the home of the Shuckburgh family since the 12th century. The house, which was granted Grade ...
, a privately owned country house
mansion
A mansion is a large dwelling house. The word itself derives through Old French from the Latin word ''mansio'' "dwelling", an abstract noun derived from the verb ''manere'' "to dwell". The English word '' manse'' originally defined a property l ...
, which has been the home of the
Shuckburgh family since the 12th century.
The
war memorial is a Hornton stone
obelisk, unveiled in 1921 and decorated with a
bronze
Bronze is an alloy consisting primarily of copper, commonly with about 12–12.5% tin and often with the addition of other metals (including aluminium, manganese, nickel, or zinc) and sometimes non-metals, such as phosphorus, or metalloids such ...
wreath of
laurels.
[Nicholson, Jean et al: ''The Obelisks of Warwickshire'', page 61. Brewin Books, 2013]
Shuckburgh was mentioned in the
Domesday Book as ''Sochberge'', possibly referring to a long lost burial mound or
barrow
Barrow may refer to:
Places
England
* Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria
** Borough of Barrow-in-Furness, local authority encompassing the wider area
** Barrow and Furness (UK Parliament constituency)
* Barrow, Cheshire
* Barrow, Gloucestershire
* Barro ...
. The villages appear as ''Ouer Shugbury'' and ''Nether Shugbury'' on the
Christopher Saxton map of 1637.
References
Sources
* Allen, Geoff. (2000). ''Warwickshire Towns and Villages''. Sigma Leisure.
External links
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Villages in Warwickshire
Former civil parishes in Warwickshire
Stratford-on-Avon District