Loxley, Warwickshire, is a village and

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near Stratford-upon-Avon,

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, England. The population taken at the 2011 census was 399. Loxley gave its name to a

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at the

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, within the Westwood campus. The settlement is first mentioned in the late 8th century, as King Offa of

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gave it to

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. The

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records the community as including a resident priest. Ownership later passed to

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. The

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was consecrated in 1286, built on the foundation of the earlier Anglo-Saxon church. In 1538, Loxley manor was owned by Robert Croft, later passing to the Underhill family and in 1664 to Edward Nash of East Greenwich. A

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was built in the 1830s. In the 1850s, the former

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lands were divided between seven farms. In 1910 the village had 59 households. As of 2011, there were 150 households with a total population of 399. While the

Robin Hood Robin Hood is a legendary heroic outlaw originally depicted in English folklore and subsequently featured in literature and film. According to legend, he was a highly skilled archer and swordsman. In some versions of the legend, he is dep ...

is mostly associated with Loxley, Graham Phillips and Martin Keatman in their ''Robin Hood The Man Behind The Myth'' (1995) suggested that a certain Robert Fitz Oto of Loxley manor was "the true Robin Hood". Historian David Baldwin in his ''Robin Hood: The English Outlaw Unmasked'' (2010) proposed Roger Godberd, who is buried in Loxley.

Notable residents

George Huddesford Rev. George Huddesford (1749–1809) was a painter and a satirical poet in Oxford. His first work was described by Fanny Burney as a "vile poem" as it revealed that she had written the novel, ''Evelina''. Life Huddesford was baptized at St. M ...

had "the living" at Loxley at the beginning of the nineteenth century.W. P. Courtney
‘Huddesford, George (bap. 1749, d. 1809)’
rev. S. C. Bushell, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004. Retrieved 6 February 2010.

References

External links

*http://www.loxleyvillage.com/ Villages in Warwickshire Stratford-on-Avon District {{Warwickshire-geo-stub