Cestersover

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{{Infobox UK place

|country = England

|official_name = Cestersover

|coordinates = {{coord|52.435|-1.260|display=inline,title}}

|civil_parish = Pailton

|shire_district = Rugby

|shire_county = Warwickshire

|region = West Midlands

}}

Cestersover is a deserted village in Warwickshire, England, now in the civil parish of Pailton.

History

It was a hamlet of Monks Kirby and was site of a watermill, a sizeable village and a chapel. The manor of Cestersover was held by the Waver (or Wara) family from at least the Norman Conquest; and the name of the village derives from Thester Wara (meaning "the Eastern" Wara).

The village was abandoned around 1467 when Henry Waver, who had made his fortune as a London draper (and was appointed a Sheriff of London) was granted permission to rebuild the ancient manor with turrets and crenelations and to enclose 500 acres of land.{{cite web|author=William Dugdale|title=The Antiquities of Warwickshire (1656), p.60 |url=https://archive.org/stream/antiquitiesofwar00dugd#page/60/mode/1up|accessdate=3 January 2011 }}

Current state

Today, remains of a moat and parts of the old manor are visible.{{ cite web |title='The hundred of Knightlow', A History of the County of Warwick: Volume 6: Knightlow hundred (1951) |url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=57082 |publisher=British History Online |accessdate=3 January 2011 }}

References

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Category:Deserted medieval villages in Warwickshire

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