Hanley Castle
Hanley Castle | ||
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Shire county | ||
Region | ||
Country | England | |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom | |
Post town | Worcester | |
Postcode district | WR8 | |
Police | West Mercia | |
Fire | Hereford and Worcester | |
Ambulance | West Midlands | |
UK Parliament | ||
Hanley Castle is a village and
The village population together with that of the nearby village of
History
In the 12th century, the heavily forested area became the seat of administration of the
Hanley Castle Grammar School was founded in 1326.
During the
Poor laws resulted in over 110 individuals being removed from Hanley Castle between 1717 and 1835, while a similar number were returned. This often involved the return of pregnant women. In 1830, for example, a woman was returned from Bristol after falling pregnant by a shoemaker who was married. [6]
Hanley Castle High School
The Grammar school, now a
Severn End
Severn End is a large Elizabethan and Jacobean mansion at the seat of the Lechmere baronets in Hanley Castle since the 11th century.[7] The Grade II listed building is situated on the banks of the River Severn, and is reached from a large gatehouse by a long private road through the estate.[8]
The Three Kings inn
Records from the 17th century of the village inn at Church End show the property as owned by the three King brothers who sold it to the Lechmere family in 1710. The inn has been run by its tenants, the Roberts family, since 1911. In 1993, the inn received the first prize of CAMRA National Pub of the Year award, and was runner up for the prize in 1998.[9]
Literature
In the 1880s W.S. Symonds wrote a historical romance called Hanley Castle, which was set during the English Civil War (mid-17th century):
...After this, Hanley Castle became a favourite residence of the Beauchamps. Here Isabel Despenser, herself of royal blood, presented her first husband, Richard Beauchamp, with a daughter, when Henry the Fifth was king (1415). At Hanley Castle she married her second husband, that famous Earl of Warwick who took the standard of Owen Glendower on Shrewsbury battle-field, and who was afterwards guardian of Henry the Sixth and Regent of France. He lies beneath his grand monument at Warwick, she lies by the chapel built to the memory of her first husband in the ancient Abbey of Tewkesbury. At Hanley Castle died their son, who was made Duke of Warwick by Henry the Sixth, and here lived for years his sister Anne, who married Neville the "King-maker" "the great commanding Warwick," "the setter-up and plucker-down of kings." Henry the Seventh appropriated the property of the Beauchamps, and in the days of James the First the Castle of Hanley belonged to the Crown, but was well nigh deserted and neglected. From its situation it could be easily destroyed by cannon, and even the great central Keep must have succumbed in a short time to artillery acting from the broad leys which commanded the Castle from the eastward. Nevertheless it was a place the hunters still loved to visit, and King James often declared that he would himself hunt a stag from his Castle of Hanley in Malvern Chase. He never came, however, and it was rented from the Crown by my father, Miles Forester, who loved the locality on account of its connection with my mother's ancestors, and for its sylvan beauty, its great moat filled with fishes, its keep in which we lived, the shattered turrets which formed the angles, and the connecting galleries now overgrown with ivy and polypody, tower cress, and pennywort.
— W.S. Symonds (1883).[10]
Between 1915 and his death in 1975,
Notes
- ^ The village has also been known as Hanlie (11th century.); Hanlega, Hanlegam, and Hanlea (12th century.); and Hanlegh (13th century) (Page & Willis-Bund 1924, pp. 89–101)
- ^ "School and Bus Routes". Aston Coaches. Retrieved 30 July 2021.
- ^ Fare 2010, pp. 1, 3.
- ^ Shirley 1883, pp. 20, 21.
- ^ Surtees 2007.
- ^ Willis-Bund 1905, pp. 231–233.
- ^ Lloyd 1993, p. 94.
- ^ Page & Willis-Bund 1924, pp. 89–101.
- ^ a b English Heritage 1952.
- ^ Fare 2010, p. 103.
- ^ Symonds 1883, p. [page needed].
References
- English Heritage (11 August 1952), Severn End, Hanley Castle, British Listed Buildings, retrieved 1 September 2011
- Fare, Malcolm (2010), The Hanleys – a history of Hanley Castle and Hanley Swan, Logaston Press, pp. 1, 3, 103, ISBN 9781906663377
- Lloyd, David (1993), A History of Worcestershire, Chichester: Phillimore, OL 1140253M
- Page, William; Willis-Bund, John, eds. (1924), "Parishes: Hanley Castle", A History of the County of Worcester, vol. 4, pp. 89–101
- Shirley, Evelyn Philip (1883), Hanley and the house of Lechmere, London: Pickering and Co., pp. 20, 21
- Surtees, Jackie (14 March 2007), Now and then: A Brief History (of Upton upon Severn)
- Symonds, William Samuel (1883), Hanley Castle, archived from the original on 26 July 2009, retrieved 21 May 2009 (out of copyright – full text available)
- Willis-Bund, John William (1905), The Civil War in Worcestershire 1642–1646 and the Scotch invasion of 1651, Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent and Company, pp. 231–233
Further reading
- Hurle, Pamela (1978), Hanley Castle – Heart of Malvern Chase, Philimore & Co., ISBN 0-85033-308-3
External links
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