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Warwickshire Q-Z

Quinton
Quenintune: Hugh de Grandmesnil and Roger from him; Hugh de Lacy.
Now 2 villages, Upper and Lower Quinton.

Radbourn
Redborne: Aelmer from Thorkell of Warwick.
Radbourne Manor Farm and Upper Radbourne Farm.
Radford Semele
Redeford: Ermenfrid from Thorkell of Warwick. Mill.
Radford House.
Radway
Radwei(a) / Rodewei: Ermenfrid from Coventry Abbey; Earl Aubrey; Richard the Forester from the king and Ermenfrid from him.
Radway Grange, where Henry Fielding read Tom Jones (1749) in manuscript to the Earl of Chatham.
Ratley
Rotelei: Aelmer from Thorkell of Warwick.

Rednal
Weredeshale: King's land.
Part of Birmingham.
Round(s)hill(s)
Rincele: Count of Meulan.

Rugby
Rocheberie: Edwulf from Thorkell of Warwick. Mill.
Market town; home of Rugby School.
Ruin Clifford
Cliforde: Hugh from Robert of Stafford.

Ryton on Dunsmore
Rietone: Thorkell of Warwick, formerly his father. Mill.
Ryton House.

Salford Priors
Salford: Leofeva the nun, formerly Godiva, Earl Leofric's wife. Mill.
Given with Abbots Salford by Kenred, King of Mercia, to the Abbey of Evesham in 708.
Sambourn(e)
Sandburne: Evesham Abbey.

Sawbridge
Salwebrige: Thorkell from Thornley Church.
Some houses near Daventry.
Seckington
Sec(h)intone: Ingenwulf and Arnulf from Count of Meulan; Iudhael from William FitzCorbucion.
Set on a rock where Saxon nobles murdered King Ethelbald in 757.
Selly Oak
Escelie: Wilbert and Robert from William FitzAnsculf.
District of Birmingham; ruins of medieval Woeley Castle, on the site of a pre-Norman settlement.
Sherbo(u)rne
Seireburne: Count of Meulan.

Shilton
Seelftone: Waltheof, the pre-Conquest holder, from Count of Meulan.
Shilton House.
Shipston
Scepwestun: Worcester Church. Mill.
Wool town; rope making; Georgian houses.
Shrewley
Seruelei: Hugh de Grandmesnil.

Shuckburgh
Socheberge: Herlwin from Count of Meulan; Alwin from Thorkell of Warwick; Richard the Forester from the king.
Now 2 villages, Lower and Upper Shuckburgh. Shuckburgh Park has been the home of the Shuckburgh family since the 12th century.
Shustoke
Scotescote: Soti from Geoffrey de la Guerche.
Shustoke House; birthplace of the historian William Dugdale (1605-86), who became Garter king-of-arms.
Shuttington
Cetitone: Leofwin and Godric, the pre-Conquest holder, from Count of Meulan. Mill.

Smeeton
Smitham: Earl Aubrey.

Smercote
Smerecote: Godric from Count of Meulan.

Snitterfield
Snitefeld: Count of Meulan.
Originally Neolithic; ancient Marroway Road, along which the men of Mercia marched to attack Wessex warriors. Richard Shakespeare, grandfather of William, lived here.
Sole End
Soulege: Godric from Count of Meulan.
Mrs. Ann Garner, one of the Dodson sisters in George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss, lived at Sole End farm.
Southam
Sucham: Coventry Abbey. 2 mills.
Market town.
Spernall
Spernore: William from William Bonvallet.

Stoneleigh
Stanlei: King's land. 2 mills.
Stoneleigh Abbey, seat of Lord Leigh (Jane Austen's mother was a Leigh). Fulling was carried out at 6 mills here.
(To find out more about Stoneleigh's history click here)
Stoneton
Stantone: Hugh from Robert of Stafford.
Some houses.
Stratford-upon-Avon
Stradforde: Bishop of Worcester. Mill (1000 eels).
Market town, birthplace of William Shakespeare (1564-1616) and home of the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Stretton Baskerville
Stratone: Roger from Ralph de Mortimer; Walter from Gilbert FitzThorold.

Stretton-on-Dunsmoor
Stratone: Reginald from Earl Roger.
Stretton Manor House.
Stretton-on-Fosse
Stratone: Walter from Osbern FitzRichard.

Studley
Stodlei: William FitzCorbucion. Mill, salthouse.
Studley Castle. James Pardow, who first used steam for needle making, established a mill here in 1800.
Sutton Coldfield
Sutone: King's land.
'Royal town' by charter of Henry VIII; now a residential district of Birmingham.
Sutton-under-Brailes
Sudtune: Westminster Abbey.

Tachbrook Mallory
Tacesbroc: Roger from Count of Meulan. 2 mills.

Temple Grafton
Grastone: Gilbert from Osbern FitzRichard.

Tessall
Thessale: King's land.
Tessall Lane in King's Norton.
Thurlaston
Torlavestone: Robert from Count of Meulan; Hubert from Hugh de Grandmesnil.
Thurlaston Grange.
Tidmington
Tidelmintun: St. Mary's Church, Worcester.

Tredington
Tredinctun: St. Mary's Church, Worcester. 3 mills.
At the crossing of the Roman Fosse Way and the Oxford-Stratford road; brick mill.
Tysoe
Tiheshoche: Robert of Stafford.
Now 3 villages; Middle, Upper and Lower Tysoe in the Vale of the Red Horse, named from the figure of a horse cut into a red hill and dedicated to the Saxon horse god, Tui.

Ufton
Ulchetone: Coventry Abbey.

Ullenhall
Holehale: Robert of Stafford.
Barrells Hall, the centre of a literary coterie in the 18th century.
Ulverley
Ulverlei: Christina.
In the Solihull urban district.
Upton
Optone: King's land; Albert the clerk from the king; Roger from William Bonvallet.
Upton House, on Edge Hill.

Walcot(e)
Walecote: Ordric, the pre-Conquest holder, from Thorkell of Warwick.

Walsgrave on Sowe
Sowa: Coventry Abbey; Richard Hunter from the king. Mill.
Traces of Neolithic settlement; coal mining since the late 16th century.
Walton
Waltone: Count of Meulan. 3 mills.

Wappenbury
Wapeberie: Geoffrey de la Guerche. Mill.
Wappenbury Hall.
Warmington
Warmintone: Count of Meulan and a man-at-arms from him.

Warwick
Waru(u)ic: King's land and various landholders and burgesses holding dwellings. 24 sesters of honey.
County town with partly Norman Warwick Castle.
(To find out more about Warwick's history click here)
Wasperton
Wasmertone: Coventry Abbey. Mill (4 packloads of salt, 1000 eels).

Weddington
Watitune: Hereward from Count of Meulan.

Weethley
Wilelei: Evesham Abbey.

Welford-on-Avon
Welleford: St. Denis Church, Paris.

Wellesbourne
Waleborne: King's land.
Now 2 villages, Waleborne Hastings and Mountford. Wellesbourne Hall was the home of the Granville family; Mary Granville, 18th century collagiste, was a favourite of George III.
Weston in Arden
Westone: Fulk from Count of Meulan.
16th century hall, home of the 11th Baron la Zouche, sole dissenter at the trial of Mary, Queen of Scots.
Weston-on-Avon
Westone / tune: Evesham Abbey; Roger from Hugh de Grandmesnil. Mill.

Weston under Wetherley
Westone: Robert from Count of Meulan; Robert from Thorkell of Warwick; Johais from William FitzCorbucion.

Whatcote
...atercote: Roger from Hugh de Grandmesnil.

Whichford
Wicford: Robert from Gilbert de Ghent. 2 mills.

Whitchurch
Witecerce: Count of Meulan and Walter from him. 2 mills.

Whitley
Witeleia: Drogo from Robert of Stafford.
Whitley Abbey; Whitley Bridge on the River Avon.
Whitnash
Witenas: Humphrey from Hascoit Musard.

Wibtoft
Wibetot: Fulk and Robert from Count of Meulan.
Site of the 1st to 2nd century Roman settlement of Venonae, now vanished.
Wiggins Hill
Winchicelle: Browning, the pre-Conquest holder, from Thorkell of Warwick.
Wiggins Hill Farm.
Willey
Welei: Fulk and Robert from Count of Meulan.

Willicote
Wilcote: Hugh's clerk from Hugh de Grandmesnil.
Small, scattered.
Willington
Ullavintone: Ewein from Robert of Stafford; Fulbric from Gilbert de Ghent. Mill.

Willoughby
Wilebec / bei / bene / bere: Wulfric, Ordric, Leofgeat and Godwin, all pre-Conquest holders, from Thorkell of Warwick; Hugh de Grandmesnil.
Warwick House.
Wilmcote
Wilmecote: Urso from Osbern FitzRichard.
Mary Arden's house.
Wilnecote
Wilmundecote: Ingenwulf and Arnulf from Count of Meulan.
Castle Liberty; Wilnecote Hall.
Wincot
Wenecote: William the Chamberlain; Reginald the Chaplain from the king.
A farm.
Wishaw
Witscaga: Ordric, the pre-Conquest holder, from William FitzCorbucion.

Witton
Witone: Stanketel, the pre-Conquest holder, from William FitzAnsculf.

Wixford
Witeleavesford: Evesham Abbey. Mill (20 sticks of eels).

Wolfham(p)cote
Ulfelmescote / Wlfemescot: Thorkell of Warwick and 4 brothers, the pre-Conquest holders, from him.

Wolford
Ulwarda / Ulware / Volwarde / Worwade: Wadard from Bishop of Bayeux and Gerald from him; Ralph from Count of Meulan; Robert of Stafford and Ordwy and Alwin, the pre-Conquest holder, from him. Mill.
Now 2 villages, Great and Little Wolford.
Wolston
Ulvestone / Ulvricestone: Reginald from Earl Roger. Mill.
Wolston Grange; Manor house; earthworks of 13th century Brandon Castle, destroyed in 1266 probably by Simon de Montfort.
Wolverton
Ulfwarditone: Urfer from Robert of Strafford; William FitzCorbucion.

Wolvey
Ulveia: Robert of Vessey.
Also the hamlet of Wolvey Heath. The Rev. Hugh Hughes, a non-resident vicar here, was George Eliot's Mr Crew in Scenes of Clerical Life.
Woodcote
Widecote: Count of Meulan and Gilbert from him.
County Police Headquarters.
Wootton Wawen
Wotone: Robert of Stafford. 2 mills.

Wormleighton
Wimeles / Wimenes / Wimerestone: Gilbert from Count of Meulan; Warin from Thorkell of Warwick; William from Geoffrey de Mandeville.
Extensive earthworks of the medieval village, depopulated in 1498.

Yardley
Gerlei: St. Mary's of Pershore.
Area of Birmingham.