Chadwick End
Chadwick End | ||
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Metropolitan county | ||
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Country | England | |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom | |
Post town | Solihull | |
Postcode district | B93 | |
Chadwick End is a small village which straddles the border of Warwickshire and the West Midlands Metropolitan Borough of Solihull, situated 3 miles (5 km) southeast of the large village of Knowle and 8 miles northwest of Warwick. It is almost contiguous with the slightly larger village of Baddesley Clinton, which lies a half-mile to the south on the A4141 route.
The name Chadwick means 'farm near a spring', and the village remains a farming community. Unusually for a small settlement, the south side of the village lies within Warwickshire with the north side lying in the Borough of Solihull. The civil parish was split from part of
A mile from the village centre lies Chadwick Manor and its Estate, built in 1875 by the architect Edward Holmes (1832-1909). During the 1930s the Manor became a country-house hotel and the estate a racing-stud both owned by Scottish racehorse owner and breeder Captain. Norman (Norrie) Stewart~MacKay (1895-1980), who sold the estate in 1964 (after which the Manor was converted to luxury flats).[citation needed]
The former Poor Clares convent on Rising Lane was founded in 1850; it has been converted into private flats since its closure in 2011.[2]
References
- ^ "Bulletin of change to local authority arrangements, areas and names in England" (PDF). Lgbce. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 January 2018. Retrieved 16 March 2018.
- ^ "Historic Warwickshire convent to close after 160 years". Birmingham Post.
External links
Media related to Chadwick End at Wikimedia Commons