Information for record number MWA9491:
Baddesley Ensor Post Medieval Settlement

Summary The probable extent of the post medieval settlement at Baddesley Ensor based on the first edition 6" Ordnance Survey map.
What Is It?  
Type: Settlement
Period: Post-medieval (1540 AD - 1750 AD)
Where Is It?  
Parish: Baddesley Ensor
District: North Warwickshire, Warwickshire
Grid Reference: SP 27 98
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Level of Protection National - Old SMR PrefRef (Grade: )
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1 The probable extent of post medieval settlement based on the first edition OS 6" map 0f 1888, 6SW.
2 The ridge and furrow plotting of the parish.
3 Baddesley Ensor is listed in Domesday; it was in Coleshill Hundred. The Phillimore edition has a grid reference of 2798. Ref 17,16 William holds Baddesley Ensor. 2 hides. Land for 2 ploughs. 3 villagers 5 smallholders and 2 slaves with 1 plough. Woodland 1 1/2 leagues long and 1/2 league wide. The value was and is 10s. This William misappropriated a fifth part of this land in King William's despite; one Brictric, who held it before 1066, lives there. Arkell and Ceolred, Thorkell's men, held the rest of the land.
4 The first edition map shows thin settlement; there is a grid pattern of a main street with a N/S axis, crossed by lanes W/E, suggesting that there was once denser occupation. The village is bounded on the east by Baddesley Common, and the ridge and furrow plotting shows survival that abuts the village to the north and to the northwest, and more to the west but at a little distance. There is a known site of desertion to the northwest [WA127], and WA125 is the site of a medieval church.
5 The medieval settlement was to the north west of the present village. The curious street configuration of Baddesley Ensor today is a post-medieval phenomenon.
 
Sources
Source No: 2
Source Type: Aerial Photograph Transcript
Title: Baddesley Ensor parish
Author/originator: ARI
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Source No: 3
Source Type: Bibliographic reference
Title: Domesday Book Warwickshire incl Birmingham
Author/originator: Phillimore and Co Ltd
Date: 1976
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Source No: 4
Source Type: Desk Top Study
Title: Comments on villages and towns in the Medieval Settlement study.
Author/originator: Hester Hawkes.
Date: 2002/3
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Source No: 1
Source Type: Map
Title: 1st edition 6" maps. Medieval settlement evaluation.
Author/originator: Ordnance Survey
Date: 1880s
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Source No: 1
Source Type: Map
Title: 6SW 1:10560 1888
Author/originator: Ordnance Survey
Date: 1888
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Source No: 5
Source Type: Watching Brief Report
Title: 123 New Street, Baddesley Ensor.
Author/originator: Catherine Coutts
Date: 2006
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source Domesday Book The Domesday Book was commissioned in December 1085 by William the Conqueror, who invaded England in 1066. It contains records for about 13,000 medieval settlements in the English counties south of the rivers Ribble and Tees (the border with Scotland at the time). The Domesday Book is a detailed record of the lands and their resources that belonged to the king. It also records the identity of the landholders and their tenants. 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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period Post Medieval About 1540 AD to 1750 AD (the 16th century AD to the 18th century AD)

The Post Medieval period comes after the medieval period and before the Imperial period.

This period covers the second half of the reign of the Tudors (1485 – 1603), the reign of the Stuarts (1603 – 1702) and the beginning of the reign of the Hannoverians (1714 – 1836).
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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 SITE * Unclassifiable site with minimal information. Specify site type wherever possible. back
monument SETTLEMENT * A small concentration of dwellings. back
monument RIDGE AND FURROW * A series of long, raised ridges separated by ditches used to prepare the ground for arable cultivation. This was a technique, characteristic of the medieval period. back
monument CHURCH * A building used for public Christian worship. Use more specific type where known. back
monument HIDE * A shelter, sometimes camouflaged, for the observation of birds and animals at close quarters. back
monument TOWN * An assemblage of public and private buildings, larger than a village and having more complete and independent local government. back

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