Shotteswell

Coordinates: 52°06′29″N 1°22′52″W / 52.108°N 1.381°W / 52.108; -1.381
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Shotteswell
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townBanbury
Postcode districtOX17
Dialling code01295
PoliceWarwickshire
FireWarwickshire
AmbulanceWest Midlands
UK Parliament
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UK
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Warwickshire
52°06′29″N 1°22′52″W / 52.108°N 1.381°W / 52.108; -1.381

Shotteswell is a village and

2011 census was 221.[1] The parish is bounded on three sides by Oxfordshire and is about 4 miles (6 km) north-west of Banbury.

Shotteswell village green

Overview

St Laurence's Church, Shotteswell

The name of the village has been spelt in various fashions over the centuries in a range of documents:- Sotteswalle around 1135, Shoteswell (1165), Schoteswell (1189), Schotewell (1190), Scoteswell (1221), Sotteswell (1235), Schetteswell (1315), Shotteswell (1428 and 1535), Shatswell (1705) as well as Cheleswell, Seteswell, Scacheswell and Shotswell, the latter in censuses of the mid-nineteenth century. It is said to derive from the

Anglo-Saxon "Soto", a family name, and "will", a well – that is – "the well of Scot". In the past, an alternative explanation was put forward that the name derived from "sceota" or "scota" meaning the offshoot or brow of a hill – that is – the well at the brow of a hill. For a large part of its history the local inhabitants have called the village "Satchel"[2][3] and, indeed, a sign at the door of St. Laurence
Church states:- "Local pronunciation of Shotteswell – Satchel".

The village occupies part of a range of heights gradually rising from north to south to 600 feet (180 m). The

Count of Meulan
and "a man-at-arms from him". In 1316 Shotteswell was described as a hamlet.

The population of the village in the

Christians, 24.4% claimed to have no religion, 0.9% were Hindus and 7.2% did not state their religion.[4]

Many of the older buildings in the village had deteriorated and crumbled by the 1960s and some thatched cottages were demolished as early as 1965. Renovations of other buildings in the subsequent decades saw the village's picturesque appearance of mainly thatched buildings altered by the use of other roofing materials.

pub although in the 19th and early 20th centuries there was an inn called "The Flying Horse" which became known as "The Flying Horse Stores" and which was granted Grade II Listed Building status on 8 April 1987.[6] There was a second public house in the village, recorded in the 1861 national census, and also in existence around 1900, which was called "The New Inn"; on 27 February 1901, its proprietor, Luke Sharman, was fined £1 with 10s 6d costs at Kineton court for permitting gambling (darts for beer and tobacco) on the premises.[7] A number of dark-stoned council houses were built at the north west end of the village. Most of the village was designated a conservation area in 1969 with minor additions to the boundaries in 1995. The M40 motorway
passes close by to the east of the village. The local economy is agriculture-based.

The village has largely lost its public facilities. The village school in Chapel Lane had closed by 1973 and the building was converted in that year to be the village hall which had previously been a wooden building situated on Coronation Lane. The previous post office is now a private residence as is the former Flying Horse Stores. The public telephone box does not accept coinage and there is a bus shelter but, from 2009, only one bus per week leaves the village for Banbury, at 1017 hours on Thursdays with the return bus leaving Banbury at 1330 hours. The bus service is operated by A & M Group.

In September 2011 Regenco, a renewable energy developer, announced that it was exploring the possibility of building a

Cherwell District Council rejected an application by Regenco to build a meteorological mast near Bury Court Farm although the company lodged an appeal with the Planning Inspectorate on 6 February 2012 which was eventually rejected on 22 June 2012.[8][9]

Parish church

The

Wesleyan Chapel was opened in the village in 1854 but was closed before 1981, when it was used first as a workshop and afterwards as a hairdressing salon, eventually being sold in 1996 to be converted into a private house. An inscription placed on one wall continues to identify its previous religious role in the village.[12]

Manor

The overlordship of Shotteswell belonged to the

King Richard II, but after his execution for treason during the Merciless Parliament
in 1388, the estate passed to his son, John.

The FitzWytes had retained as much of the

William de Bereford who was succeeded by his son, Sir Edmund, who died in 1354 settling the manor on his illegitimate son, Sir John and after his death the manor passed to his brother, Baldwin. He was succeeded firstly by his widow, Elizabeth and then by her daughter, Maud. Sir John Beauchamp and Sir Baldwin Bereford shared the fees in Shotteswell in 1400 and when Sir John died in 1420, his widow, Alice, held the manor for life to be succeeded by Margaret, Sir John's daughter and her husband, John Wisham, in 1423. Margaret's three daughters, Alice, Joan and Elizabeth were co-heirs. Elizabeth's son, John Croft and his wife, Joan, held one third of the manor in 1499 and one half in 1501. Simon Rice, a London merchant, purchased the moiety
of the manor in 1514 and was succeeded by his widow, Lettice who held lands in 1531.

After her death the

Sir Thomas Pope
for £400.

In 1555 Shotteswell was granted a licence to grant for the endowment of

Lord Frederick North) died in 1802 to be succeeded by his brother Francis, who held the manor as a trustee for his three nieces. Col. John Sidney Doyle married the second niece, the Hon. Susan North, in 1838 and adopted her surname and became lord of the manor of Shotteswell in 1841 after the death of the eldest sister, Maria, when Susan became Baroness North. William Henry John, Lord North succeeded in 1894 when his father died and the manor was sold to B. J. Daunt of County Cork in September 1937.[13]

English Civil War

The villagers of Shotteswell would have been considerably affected by the events of the

Royalist forces were camped 4 miles (6.4 km) to the south, at Banbury. Shotteswell more or less lay half-way between the two armies. Later in the war, another significant battle was fought between the two forces, only about two miles from Shotteswell, at Cropredy Bridge on 29 June 1644.[14][15]

Nineteenth century

In the mid-nineteenth century Shotteswell was described as a "poor and very unimportant

St. Lawrence Church around 1811–15. As well as farming, this family later owned shops in the village as well as The Flying Horse Inn around 1874.[16] By the 1881 census, the long-established Sharman family which had made its first appearance in the parish records in 1690, was the most numerous family in the village.[17]

In 1831 a notable crime was committed in the village when a bankrupt farmer, John Coleman, shot Edward Goode, an agricultural worker, fatally in the head and was charged with murder and subsequently tried at Warwick Assizes in 1832 where he was found not guilty of murder but guilty of manslaughter due to his mental disturbance brought on by the loss of his property. He was sentenced to transportation for life. The inquest into Goode's death had been held in The Flying Horse Inn, as had a number of other inquests during the 19th century. It is recorded that one of the members of the White family, another Thomas, was the village constable at the time and it was he who apprehended Coleman after the killing.[18] In 1888 the villagers of Shotteswell, as well as those of neighbouring Farnborough, Mollington and Ratley and Upton, expressed a preference for their villages to be transferred from Warwickshire to Oxfordshire in a "memorial" in response to the "Report of the Committee of County Magistrates upon the rectification of County and Union Boundaries in Oxfordshire". This response highlighted the villages' close links to the town of Banbury.[19] Nothing came of this expressed preference.

First and Second World Wars

A

Second World War. On 22 November 1942, a Wellington BK261 aircraft broke up and crashed at Shotteswell when a photo-flash exploded in the aircraft, and this resulted in the death of five crew members.[20] The village was situated close to a Royal Air Force practice bombing range during World War II, and in his book A Thousand Shall Fall, the Canadian former pilot, Murray Peden, described how the village sometimes sustained inadvertent damage from bombs which had gone astray from Allied bombers using the practice range.[21]

Governance

The village is in the

Parish Council has the following members:- Janet Burgess, Les Faulkner, Val Ingram, Anne Omer and Michael Pearson who were elected on 7 May 2015. The turnout was 86.9% of eligible voters.[25]
The clerk of Shotteswell Parish Council is Mrs. V. Ingram.

Notable inhabitants

Member of Parliament for Stratford-upon-Avon in the 1950s and 60s, lived in Cherry Lodge in Shotteswell until he sold it in 1987. He was the centre of a national political scandal when he lied to the House of Commons, hiding the truth that whilst serving as war minister he was having an affair with Christine Keeler, a teenaged call-girl who was simultaneously having an affair with a Russian naval attaché, which raised serious national security issues. John Profumo was forced to resign as a cabinet minister and MP, and local people were offered £100s by journalists to reveal Profumo's whereabouts after he went into hiding at a friend's home in Radway. He died in 2006.[26]

References

  1. ^ "Civil Parish population 2011". Retrieved 31 December 2015.
  2. ^ JEB Glover, A. Mawer and FM Stenton (1936) "The Place Names Of Warwickshire" Cambridge University Press
  3. ^ Rev. George Miller (1900) "The Edge Hills The Vale Of The Red Horse" Elliot Stock
  4. ^ http://shotteswellwarwickshire.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/shotteswell-parish-council-census-profile-2011-1.pdf [bare URL PDF]
  5. ^ Peter Bolton 2003 "The Lost Architectural Landscapes Of Warwickshire Volume 1 – The South" Landmark Publishing Ltd
  6. ^ Flying Horse Stores, Shotteswell.(http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-306273-flying-horse-stores-shotteswell.)
  7. ^ Graham Sutherland 2009 "Edward's Warwickshire January – March 1901" Knowle Villa Books
  8. ^ Wind farm plans refused to delight of protesters.(http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2011/12/13/wind-farm-plans-refused-to-delight-of-protestors/)
  9. ^ Regenco appeals refusal of temporary wind monitoring mast application.(http://shamwag.com/2012/02/06/regenco-appeals-refusal-wind-monitoring-mast-application/
  10. ^ anon. (1981): "Saint Laurence Church A Short Guide to the Church", publisher not cited
  11. ^ Church of St. Lawrence, Shotteswell.(http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-306251-church-of-st-lawrence-shotteswell.)
  12. ^ Peter Bolton 2003 "The Lost Architectural Landscapes of Warwickshire Volume1 – The South" Landmark Publishing Ltd
  13. ^ British History Online Parishes Shotteswell.(http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=57064)
  14. ^ Trevor Royle (2004) "Civil War The War of the Three Kingdoms 1638–1660" pages 184–200, Abacus.
  15. ^ Terry Slater (1997)"A History of Warwickshire" pages 78–80, Phillimore & Co. Ltd.
  16. ^ "Misc Inns and Taverns in Warwickshire S – W"(http://www.Hunimex.com/warwick/inns-mscs.html)
  17. ^ "Shotteswell"(http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~bewickgenealogy/census/shotteswell.htm)
  18. ^ "Dreadful Murder". Oxford Journal. 15 October 1831.
  19. ^ Oxford Journal, 18 February 1888
  20. ^ "Military crashes in the south west Midlands – 1942"(http://www.aviationarchaeology.org.uk/marg/crashes1942.htm)
  21. ^ Murray Peden (2003) "A Thousand Shall Fall", Dundun Press Ltd.
  22. ^ Warwick District Council Election Results.
  23. ^ Warwickshire County Council Election Results.
  24. ^ Stratford on Avon District Council Election Results.
  25. ^ Stratford on Avon District Parish Council Election Results.
  26. ^ "Loyal to scandal minister"(http://www.banburyguardian.co.uk/news/local/loyal-to-scandal-minister-1-587820)
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