Caldecote, Warwickshire

{{Short description|Village and civil parish in Warwickshire, England}}

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|official_name =Caldecote

|population = 142

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|shire_county= Warwickshire

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|region=West Midlands

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|post_town= Nuneaton

|postcode_district = CV10

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Caldecote is a village and civil parish in Warwickshire, England, 2 miles north of Nuneaton and south of the A5. An ancient settlement, Caldecote is recorded in the 1086 Domesday Book as being in the ownership of the Bishop of Chester.{{cite web|title=Caldecote Hall Estate|url=http://www.webspinners.org.uk/weddingtoncastle2/caldecotehall/history.htm|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100806162426/http://www.webspinners.org.uk/weddingtoncastle2/caldecotehall/history.htm|archivedate=2010-08-06}}

Caldecote Hall

The manor house, Caldecote Hall, was the home of Parliamentarian Colonel William Purefoy during the English Civil War and was damaged by Royalist siege by Prince Rupert in 1642. In the 18th century it was owned by Nathan Wright.{{cite book|author1=Edward Wedlake Brayley|author-link=Edward Wedlake Brayley|author2=John Britton|author2-link=John Britton (antiquarian)|title=The Beauties of England and Wales, Or, Delineations, Topographical, Historical, and Descriptive, of Each County|volume=xv|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nopCAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA315|year=1814|publisher=T. Maiden|page=315}} The Hall was rebuilt in brick in 1880,{{cite book|author1=Nikolaus Pevsner|author2=Alexandra Wedgwood|title=Warwickshire|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pvPPNqFWKr4C&pg=PA223|date=1 March 1981|publisher=Yale University Press|isbn=0-300-09679-8|page=223}} for Henry Leigh Townshend, who was High Sheriff of Warwickshire in 1901. In 1924, the Hall was bought by the Church of England Temperance Society, for use as a retreat. In the 1950s, it was the home of St Chad's School but suffered financial problems and a severe fire in 1955. In 2005 it was restored and converted to private flats.{{cite web|title=Economies of scale|date=4 August 2005 |url=http://www.countrylife.co.uk/culture/article/66929/Economies-of-Scale.html|publisher=Country Life}}

Gallery

File:Nuneaton caldecote.jpg|River Anker

File:Nuneaton caldecotehall.jpg|Caldecote Hall

Sources

Sheasby, Alan (1990) Skylark Fields: A Forties Childhood Exeter, Devon: Wheaton Publishers Ltd/Warwickshire Books, {{ISBN|1-871942-04-7}} (Includes a map of Caldecote and surrounding district)

References

Category:Villages in Warwickshire

Category:Civil parishes in Warwickshire

Category:Borough of North Warwickshire