Dadlington
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Dadlington is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Dadlington and Sutton Cheney, in the Hinckley and Bosworth district, in Leicestershire, England.[1] It is situated between Hinckley, Market Bosworth and Nuneaton. In 1931 the parish had a population of 200.[2]
The village has a population of around 301 and contains a 13th-century church (St. James), a pub (the Dog and Hedgehog) and a hotel (the Ambion Court).
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History
The village's name means 'farm/settlement of Daedela'.[3]
Dadlington became a parish in 1866, on 1 April 1935 the parish was abolished and merged with Sutton Cheney.[4]
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In 1511 the wardens of St. James' chapel at Dadlington petitioned
During the English Civil War Dadlington was visited by troops from the parliamentary garrisons at Tamworth and Coventry seeking horses and free quartering. A claim to the Warwickshire county committee submitted by the constables in June, 1646 reveals that on 12 March 1643 a certain Burdett, described as "a soldier under Captain Turton of Tamworth" made off with a horse belonging to Ann Turton, a widow. (A Richard Turton is listed in a 1643 Tamworth garrison musters of "officers, dragoons and soldjers"). A few months later "Mason, a soldier under Captain Turton" (probably John Mason, also listed among the Tamworth garrison) took a horse worth £2.6.8 from this same Ann Turton, who may well have been related to the captain. Colonel Purefoy's soldiers from Coventry availed themselves of free quarter "for one night and part of a day" estimated to be worth £2.10, while Captain Flower's footsoldiers from Coventry took a horse worth 2s from Michael Cox and Captain Ottaway's soldiers a horse worth 5s from Thomas Everard. (Exchequer accounts, SP 28/161)
References
- ISBN 0 319 46404 0
- A Vision of Britain through Time. Retrieved 26 December 2022.
- ^ "Key to English Place-names". kepn.nottingham.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 25 August 2021. Retrieved 25 August 2021.
- ^ "Relationships and changes Dadlington Ch/CP through time". A Vision of Britain through Time. Retrieved 26 December 2022.
- ^ "Feature: British Archaeology 112, May / June 2010". Archived from the original on 23 September 2015. Retrieved 28 March 2015.
- ^ https://www.academia.edu/6190542/Finding_Bosworth_Battlefield_a_multiproxy_palaeoenvironmental_investigation_of_lowland_sediments_from_Dadlington._Leicestershire_England [dead link]
External links
- Dadlington Village History website
- Dadlington 2007 website now archived
- Dadlington and the Battle of Bosworth, 1485 (Tim Parry's webpage, on the Internet Archive)
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