
Loxley, Warwickshire, is a village and
civil parish
In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government. Civil parishes can trace their origin to the ancient system of parishes, w ...
near
Stratford-upon-Avon
Stratford-upon-Avon ( ), commonly known as Stratford, is a market town and civil parish in the Stratford-on-Avon (district), Stratford-on-Avon district, in the county of Warwickshire, in the West Midlands (region), West Midlands region of Engl ...
,
Warwickshire
Warwickshire (; abbreviated Warks) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in the West Midlands (region), West Midlands of England. It is bordered by Staffordshire and Leicestershire to the north, Northamptonshire to the east, Ox ...
, England. The population taken at the
2011 census was 399. Loxley gave its name to a
hall of residence at the
University of Warwick
The University of Warwick ( ; abbreviated as ''Warw.'' in post-nominal letters) is a public research university on the outskirts of Coventry between the West Midlands and Warwickshire, England. The university was founded in 1965 as part of ...
, within the Westwood
campus
A campus traditionally refers to the land and buildings of a college or university. This will often include libraries, lecture halls, student centers and, for residential universities, residence halls and dining halls.
By extension, a corp ...
. The settlement is first mentioned in the late 8th century, as King
Offa
Offa ( 29 July 796 AD) was King of Mercia, a kingdom of Anglo-Saxon England, from 757 until his death in 796. The son of Thingfrith and a descendant of Eowa, Offa came to the throne after a period of civil war following the assassination of ...
of
Mercia
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gave it to
Worcester Cathedral
Worcester Cathedral, formally the Cathedral Church of Christ and Blessed Mary the Virgin, is a Church of England cathedral in Worcester, England, Worcester, England. The cathedral is the seat of the bishop of Worcester and is the Mother Church# ...
. The
Domesday Book
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records the community as including a resident priest. Ownership later passed to
Kenilworth Abbey. The
parish church
A parish church (or parochial church) in Christianity is the Church (building), church which acts as the religious centre of a parish. In many parts of the world, especially in rural areas, the parish church may play a significant role in com ...
was consecrated in 1286, built on the foundation of the earlier
Anglo-Saxon
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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
village school
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was built in the 1830s. In the 1850s, the former
parish
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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 noble outlaw, heroic outlaw originally depicted in English folklore and subsequently featured in literature, theatre, and cinema. According to legend, he was a highly skilled archer and swordsman. In some versions o ...
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 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
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