Whitchurch is a
parish
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and a small
hamlet
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lying on the left bank of the
River Stour in
Warwickshire
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, England, some four miles south-south-east of the town of
Stratford-upon-Avon.
Hamlet
The population at the
2011 census was 174. Consisting today of just five properties with a total population (in 2007) of 19, it occupies the site of an earlier, larger village which was depopulated in the 15th and 16th centuries as the result of land clearance schemes carried out by the then
lords of the manor
Lord of the Manor is a title that, in Anglo-Saxon England, referred to the landholder of a rural estate. The lord enjoyed manorial rights (the rights to establish and occupy a residence, known as the manor house and demesne) as well as seigno ...
.
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Norman
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Ethnic and cultural identity
* The Normans, a people partly descended from Norse Vikings who settled in the territory of Normandy in France in the 10th and 11th centuries
** People or things connected with the Norm ...
church survives, now standing alone in the middle of fields, and the
medieval
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village's
fish ponds are still visible today when the river floods.
Parish
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Teletubbies
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'' created for the
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was filmed at a farm in Wimpstone.
of Whitchurch – which includes the larger settlements of Wimpstone and Crimscote – formed (together with the parishes of
.