Bearley

Coordinates: 52°14′35″N 1°44′13″W / 52.243°N 1.737°W / 52.243; -1.737
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Bearley
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townSTRATFORD-UPON-AVON
Postcode districtCV37
PoliceWarwickshire
FireWarwickshire
AmbulanceWest Midlands
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Warwickshire
52°14′35″N 1°44′13″W / 52.243°N 1.737°W / 52.243; -1.737

Bearley

Stratford-on-Avon district of Warwickshire, England. The village is about five miles (8 km) north of Stratford-upon-Avon, bounded on the north by Wootton Wawen, on the east by Snitterfield, and on the south and west by Aston Cantlow. The western boundary is formed by a stream running out of Edstone Lake; it would seem that the land, now part of Edstone in Wootton Wawen, between the stream where it flows west from the lake and the road running east from Bearley Cross, was originally included in Bearley. The land within the parish
rises gradually from a height of 216 ft (66 m), in the north-west at Bearley Cross, to about 370 ft (110 m), at the south-east corner of the parish, and is open except along its eastern boundary, where part of the extensive wood known as Snitterfield Bushes is included in Bearley.

At Bearley Cross the road running west to

2011 Census.[3]

History

The name is first recorded as Burlei in 1086 and is from

Dissolution of the Monasteries it came to Clement Throckmorton who later sold it William Walter who passed it to Mr Fanshaw.[6]

Governance

Bearley is part of the

Member of Parliament following the 2010 general election is Nadhim Zahawi of the Conservative Party. Prior to Brexit in 2020 it was part of the West Midlands electoral region of the European Parliament
.

Economy

The village is home to Bearley Vineyard,[8] a three-acre, family run vineyard that produces white, rosé and red English wines. It was established in 2005 and has since won numerous regional and national awards including The Best Red Wine in Mercia for the Pinot Noir Précoce 2009, and The Best Rosé Wine in Mercia for the Rosé 2010.[9] There is limited local employment: light industry, retail, a nursing home, agriculture and livestock farming. Most of the working population has jobs further afield in Stratford-upon-Avon, and in the conurbations of Redditch, Birmingham and Coventry. The village shop and post office closed in 2001. The nearest facilities are in Snitterfield.

Notable buildings

St Mary The Virgin View of the Nave and Chancel
The Font
Blocked 12th century doorway
Millennium Window

The

light
set high up, by John Hardman in 1886, but there is patching for a former lower window.

The north and south windows are of two lights and were also formerly lower in the walls. About a yard east of them are short straight joints and pieces of sandstone that may indicate former windows. The nave has side walls 2 ft 9 in (0.84 m) thick; the lower halves of them are of early shaly rubble with wide jointing, and above this are medieval sandstone courses. The north and south windows are of two lights and both have patchings below them for lower windows. In the north wall are the remains of a 12th-century doorway of sandstone, now blocked: it has jambs of two orders, the inner with an edge-roll; the outer is square and had nook-shafts, which have disappeared except for the western capital; this is of cushion form with chevron ornament.

The head is pointed and of one square order, probably a later alteration. In the south wall is another blocked doorway with square

fleur de Lys, Queen, King, fleur de lys MARIA that was made by re-casting two bells when the building was re-modelled in 1875.[11] The Millennium Window by Art of Glass, Earlswood
(River of the Water of Life) 2001 donated by Audrey Payne in memory of her late husband.

Sports and leisure

Like many other rural villages that are within commuting distance of large cities, Bearley has become a

WI group, a garden club, a short mat bowls club, as well as cricket and football teams. Snitterfield bushes, a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) managed by the Warwickshire Wildlife Trust
, lies 1.2 miles (2 km) east of Bearley.

Transport links

The longest aqueduct in England, the Edstone Aqueduct, is just outside Bearley on the Stratford-upon-Avon Canal. Bearley railway station is a halt on the Leamington–Stratford line.

References

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  1. ^ G.M. Miller, BBC Pronouncing Dictionary of British Names (Oxford UP, 1971), p. 12.
  2. ^ a b c A History of the County of Warwick: Volume 3
  3. ^ "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 23 December 2015.
  4. ^ A.D. Mills, Dictionary of English Place-Names (Oxford UP, 2nd ed., 1998), p. 30.
  5. ISBN 0-85033-141-2
  6. ^ The Antiquities of Warwickshire, William Dugdale, 1656
  7. ^ "Your Councillors". 28 March 2023.
  8. ^ "Bearley Vineyard Website". Archived from the original on 31 March 2012.
  9. ^ "Mercian Vineyard Association – Competitions". Archived from the original on 15 August 2011.
  10. ^ Tilley and Walters, Church Bells of Warwickshire.
  11. ^ Church Terrier
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