Grandborough

Coordinates: 52°17′56″N 1°16′45″W / 52.298983°N 1.27917°W / 52.298983; -1.27917
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Not to be confused with Granborough (previously Grandborough) in Buckinghamshire.
Grandborough
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townRUGBY
Postcode districtCV23
Dialling code01788
PoliceWarwickshire
FireWarwickshire
AmbulanceWest Midlands
UK Parliament
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UK
England
Warwickshire
52°17′56″N 1°16′45″W / 52.298983°N 1.27917°W / 52.298983; -1.27917

Grandborough is a small village and

2021 census was 492.[1]
Grandborough is in a rural area of eastern Warwickshire, around six miles (10 km) south of Rugby and six miles northwest of Daventry, Northamptonshire. Grandborough is about two miles from the nearest main roads and can be reached by country lanes from the A45 to the east, and the A426 to the west.

The River Leam flows north of the village. There was a watermill (now a private residence) where the river passed under the road from Woolscott. In times of flood, the river flows over the road creating a ford. A road sign suggests that pedestrians and motorists should "Use causeway if flooded".

Grandborough's church is dedicated to St Peter. The church spire, and the two tall

pub called the Shoulder of Mutton. In Main Street there is a private house which was formerly a pub called the Royal George. Harrow House, in Woolscott, was formerly a pub called the Old Harrow Inn.[2]

History

Grandborough was mentioned in the

Anglo-Saxon Grēnbeorg = "green rounded hill", but the Domesday Book form points otherwise. It appears as Granborowe on the Christopher Saxton
map of 1637.

The former village school still stands. It closed in April 1974[3] and is now a private house. A stone plaque hidden on an east-facing wall has the inscription "Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it" and the date 1840.[2] The quotation is taken from the Book of Proverbs, chapter 22, verse 6.[4]

The first mention of a post office in the village is the issue in April 1847 of a type of postmark known as an undated circle (with the spelling Granborough).[5] The post office and village shop closed on 4 April 1997.[6]

Notable residents

Mark Pawsey, MP for Rugby since 2010.

References

  1. ^ "Grandborough Parish in West Midlands". City Population. Retrieved 7 January 2024.
  2. ^ a b "Away from it all: Grandborough", Warwickshire and Worcestershire Life, January 1980, pp 56-57.
  3. ^ Coventry Evening Telegraph, 5 April 1974
  4. ^ Grandborough: Portrait of a Warwickshire Village, Canon Idwal Jones (no date), 32pp
  5. ISBN 0-9513311-3-2
    .
  6. ^ "Rugby Advertiser", 10 April 1997.

External links

Media related to Grandborough at Wikimedia Commons

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