Kineton

Coordinates: 52°09′24″N 1°30′40″W / 52.1566°N 1.5112°W / 52.1566; -1.5112
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Not to be confused with
Kyneton, Victoria
.

Kineton
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townWARWICK
Postcode districtCV35
Dialling code01926
PoliceWarwickshire
FireWarwickshire
AmbulanceWest Midlands
UK Parliament
Websitewww.kineton.org.uk
List of places
UK
England
Warwickshire
52°09′24″N 1°30′40″W / 52.1566°N 1.5112°W / 52.1566; -1.5112

Kineton

2001 census it had a population of 2,278, increasing to 2,337 at the 2011 Census.[2]

Kineton is about ten miles (16 km) from the towns of

Banburyshire
.

Kineton district council ward covers Gaydon, Lighthorne, Lighthorne Heath, Compton Verney, Combrook, Little Kineton and Chadshunt, a population of 4,228 according to the 2001 census, rising to 4,320 at the 2011 census. The village has some areas of light industry but is largely agricultural; many residents commute to nearby towns and cities for employment, including Banbury, Warwick and Stratford-upon-Avon.

History

King John's Castle

The first recorded reference to Kineton was in 969, when Saxon

King Edgar
granted some land here to a trusted counsellor.

The village is mentioned in the

Kineton Hundred.[3]

Early in the 13th century, Stephen de Segrave had a Tuesday market in his manor of Kineton, and a fair on the eve and day of St Peter and St Paul. The market died out by 1840, when the market house was pulled down and a school built on its site, but the fair on 5 February continued until recently.[4]

For a period of the

Queen Henrietta Maria at Kineton.[4]

John Newton who lived from 1725 to 1807 and for a while lived in the village of Kineton where he is rumoured to have written the words to "Amazing Grace" in 1772[5] but there is no contemporary evidence for this.

William Kendall, co-builder of Birmingham Town Hall and subsequent Warwick County Surveyor and Steward to the Earl of Warwick, lived in Little Kineton in 1841.[6]

Military connections

Main article:
MoD Kineton

During the

Second World War, Kineton served as a transit camp, with Polish and Czechoslovakian
troops stationed there.

One of the UK's main military

railway carriages and trains on behalf of the various UK train operating companies
.

Partially within Kineton parish, from 1942 until 1977, RAF Gaydon operated as both a training unit and a front-line bomber base. In 1978, the site passed into civilian ownership and today contains the British Motor Museum, the headquarters and factory of sports car manufacturer Aston Martin, and the Jaguar Land Rover Gaydon Centre.

Present

St Peter's Church, Kineton

Near the centre of the village stands St Peter's Church. Work on the current building, which replaced an earlier church on the same site, began in the 13th century. A completed church was consecrated in 1315. Of this new building only the fine tower remains.

The rest of the building has been rebuilt and remodelled over the centuries. In the 18th century Sanderson Miller enlarged the nave and added two transepts. A further remodelling campaign, which transformed the building into its current form, took place in the 19th century.

Pittern Hill Windmill

In 2008, three new bells were cast to augment the bells to eight, one replacing an existing bell.

Taylors Eayre & Smith Ltd
of Loughborough carried out the work. The eight bells were rung for the first time on 5 November 2008.

The village also has a 19th-century

Roman Catholic church. Pittern Hill Mill
, north-west of the village, is a stone windmill of the 18th century.

Village shops include a Co-op store, a traditional butcher, a flower shop, an optician, an artisan bakery, a barber, hairdresser as well as the Nifty Needle curtain and soft furnishings/fabrics shop and workroom. There is a post office/convenience store and had a branch of

Bangladeshi and Indian cuisine
).

The village and surrounding area are served by Kineton Church of England Primary School and Kineton High School, which takes students aged 11–19.

Transport

Kineton is close to the Fosse Way Roman Road and the M40 motorway which links it to Birmingham and London.

Regular

Stratford upon Avon, Banbury and Leamington Spa are operated by Stagecoach
and other independent companies.

The village was once served by the

Beeching Axe and the line itself closed two years later.[8]

Sports

Kineton Sports and Social Club hosts football, cricket and bowls teams. The football team competes in the Leamington & District Sunday Football League, affiliated to the Birmingham FA and the cricket side competes in the Cotswold Hills League. Kinetonbcycle are a group cycling from Little Kineton at 19:15 on Wednesday nights covering around 25 miles with on and off-road routes and including a pub stop. Kineton Hign School is the home of Wellesbourne Badminton Club who play in the Leamington and Banbury Leagues and have a club night every Tuesday from 7.30 pm, and South Warwickshire Junior Badminton Club who are a Badminton England Affiliated Club playing on a Friday night at 6.30 pm.

Name connection

The town of

Kyneton in Victoria, Australia was named after Kineton in the 19th century.[9]

See also

  • Banburyshire

References

  1. ^ "Parish Council".
  2. ^ "Civil Parish population 2011". Retrieved 29 December 2015.
  3. ISBN 1-85058-642-X
  4. ^ a b "Parishes: Kineton with Combrook - British History Online". www.british-history.ac.uk.
  5. ^ "A guide to Kineton, Warwickshire. Kineton tourist information, local contacts, attractions and reviews". www.information-britain.co.uk.
  6. ISBN 0-7734-3851-3
    ; 1841 census.
  7. ^ "Defence Internet | Defence For... | Kineton HIVE". www.mod.uk. Archived from the original on 8 February 2006.
  8. ^ "Bidford upon Avon Station". www.warwickshirerailways.com.
  9. ISBN 0-7270-0250-3

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