Honeybourne
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Honeybourne | ||
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Shire county | ||
Region | ||
Country | England | |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom | |
Post town | EVESHAM | |
Postcode district | WR11 | |
Dialling code | 01386 | |
Police | West Mercia | |
Fire | Hereford and Worcester | |
Ambulance | West Midlands | |
Honeybourne is a village and
History
Honeybourne was two villages: Church Honeybourne was in Worcestershire while Cow Honeybourne was in Gloucestershire. Their names are derived from Old English hunig, "honey", and burna, "stream", the whole meaning "(places on) the stream by which honey is found"; the first word of Cow Honeybourne comes from Old English calu, "bare, lacking vegetation".[2] Boundary changes in 1931 moved Cow Honeybourne into Worcestershire and the two parishes were united in 1958.[3] Honeybourne has several historic timber framed and thatched buildings. The Thatched Tavern in Cow Honeybourne has a cruck truss.[4]
Parish churches
In Church Honeybourne the Church of England parish church of Saint Ecgwin was consecrated in 1295.[5] Its antiquity is reflected in a local rhyme "when Evesham was bush and thorn there was a church at Honeybourne". Its nave and chancel appear to be original late-13th-century structures.[5] There was a south aisle, but it was demolished and its windows re-set in the south wall of the nave.[5] The bell tower has a Decorated Gothic spire with three tiers of lucarnes.[5] The south porch is a late mediaeval Perpendicular Gothic addition.[5] It is a Grade I listed building.[6]
In Cow Honeybourne the former parish church, known as the "Old Church" has a 15th-century Perpendicular Gothic west tower and formerly had an ornate Elizabethan pulpit.[4] The church fell out of use for worship from the 16th to the 19th centuries and was partitioned off into four or five tenements, while pig sties and sheds were built against the outside walls.[7] Apart from the tower, the church was rebuilt in 1861–63 to designs by the Worcester Diocesan Architect W. J. Hopkins.[4] The church has since been made redundant, deconsecrated and converted to two private houses. It is a Grade II listed building.[8]
Honeybourne is in the Diocese of Gloucester. Diocesan boundaries and county boundaries do not align in this part of the country.
Amenities
Honeybourne has two
Education
Honeybourne Primary Academy teaches children between the ages of four and 11. Honeybees Nursery takes children between the ages of two and four.
Railways
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The Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway was built through the parish in the 1840s and opened Honeybourne station.[citation needed] The 19th-century railway company Great Western Railway took over the OW&W in 1862 and enlarged Honeybourne station in the 1900s when it built the railway between Stratford-upon-Avon and Cheltenham Spa.[citation needed]
A report prepared for Stratford-on-Avon District Council in 2012 stated that there was a good business case for restoring the Stratford-Cotswolds link line.[10]
In July 2015 a drunken squirrel caused hundreds of pounds' worth of damage to the Honeybourne Railway Club, when it emptied an entire barrel of beer onto the floor and knocked glasses and bottles from the shelves.[11]
Citations
- ^ "Area selected: Wychavon (Non-Metropolitan District)". Neighbourhood Statistics: Full Dataset View. Office for National Statistics. Archived from the original on 22 June 2011. Retrieved 16 July 2010.
- ISBN 0192831313.
- ^ "Cow Honeybourne". A Vision of Britain. GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth.
- ^ a b c Pevsner, 1968, page 125
- ^ a b c d e Pevsner, 1968, page 119
- ^ "Church of St Ecgwin - A Grade I Listed Building in Honeybourne, Worcestershire". www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk. British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 18 May 2017.
- ^ Noake, J (1868). Noake's Guide to Worcestershire. London: Longman and Co. pp. 87–88.
- ^ "The Nave and the Chancel Old Church - A Grade II Listed Building in Honeybourne, Worcestershire". www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk. British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 18 May 2017.
- ^ Abbott, James (August 2011). "Track doubling projects restore capacity". Modern Railways. 68 (755).
- ^ Railnews (22 October 2012). "Good business case for Stratford-Cotswolds link". Railnews. Retrieved 2 June 2014.
- ^ "Drunk squirrel causes mass damage to Worcestershire pub". 16 July 2015.
General and cited sources
- Pevsner, Nikolaus (1968). The Buildings of England: Worcestershire. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. pp. 119, 125.
External links
Media related to Honeybourne at Wikimedia Commons