Information for record number MWA10240:
Medieval Settlement of Forshaw Heath

Summary Medieval settlement.
What Is It?  
Type: Settlement
Period: Early medieval - medieval (801 AD - 1539 AD)
Where Is It?  
Parish: Tanworth in Arden
District: Stratford on Avon, Warwickshire
Grid Reference: SP 09 73
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Level of Protection National - Old SMR PrefRef (Grade: )
Sites & Monuments Record
Description

  
Source Number  
Originally on Solihull HER MSI1828 - 5829
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2 It was in existence in C9, known as Fox Shawe - Place of Foxes.
3 Dubious as not referenced in above source. No reference in any early sources such as Warwickshire Charters (Hooke 1999), DB, EPNS volume etc etc. Cannot see how this statement can be supported.
 
Sources
Source No: 1
Source Type: Bibliographic reference
Title: The West Midlands Village Book
Author/originator: West Midlands Federation of Womens Institutes
Date: 1989
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Source No: 2
Source Type: Map
Title: SP07SE
Author/originator: Ordnance Survey
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Source No: 3
Source Type: Verbal communication
Title: Pers. Comm. Magnus Alexander
Author/originator: Magnus Alexander
Date: 2006
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Glossary

 
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Description  
source EPNS The Journal of the English Place-Name Society. The English Place-Name Society was founded in 1923 to carry out a survey of English place-names. Its journal contains reports as well as articles about place-names or specific place-name studies, book reviews and bibliographies. The journal is published annually. Individual volumes also exist for most counties; that for Warwickshire was published in 1936. back
period Medieval 1066 AD to 1539 AD (the 11th century AD to the 16th century AD)

The medieval period comes after the Saxon period and before the post medieval period.

The Medieval period begins in 1066 AD.
This was the year that the Normans, led by William the Conqueror (1066 – 1087), invaded England and defeated Harold Godwinson at the Battle of Hastings in East Sussex.
The Medieval period includes the first half of the Tudor period (1485 – 1603 AD), when the Tudor family reigned in England and eventually in Scotland too.

The end of the Medieval period is marked by Henry VIII’s (1509 – 1547) order for the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the years running up to 1539 AD. The whole of this period is sometimes called the Middle Ages.
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monument VILLAGE * A collection of dwelling-houses and other buildings, usually larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town with a simpler organisation and administration than the latter. back
monument SETTLEMENT * A small concentration of dwellings. back

* Copyright of English Heritage (1999)

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