Chadwick End
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Chadwick End village hall | |
Chadwick End Location within the West Midlands | |
OS grid reference | SP206731 |
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Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | Solihull |
Postcode district | B93 |
Chadwick End is a small village which straddles the border of Warwickshire and the West Midlands Metropolitan Borough of Solihull, situated 3 miles (5 km) southeast of the large village of Knowle and 8 miles northwest of Warwick.
The name Chadwick means 'farm near a spring', and the village remains a farming community, almost contiguous with the historic Warwickshire village of Baddesley Clinton only half-a-mile to the south.[citation needed]. The south side of the village lies within Warwickshire with the north side lying in the Borough of Solihull.
A mile from the village centre lies Chadwick Manor and its Estate, built in 1875 by the architect Edward Holmes (1832-1909). During the 1930s the Manor became a country-house hotel and the estate a racing-stud both owned by Scottish racehorse owner and breeder Captain. Norman (Norrie) Stewart~MacKay (1895-1980), who sold the estate in 1964 (after which the Manor was converted to luxury flats).[citation needed]
The former Poor Clares convent on Rising Lane was founded in 1850; it has been converted into private flats since its closure in 2011.[1]
References[]
- ^ "Historic Warwickshire convent to close after 160 years". Birmingham Post.
External links[]
Media related to Chadwick End at Wikimedia Commons
- Villages in Warwickshire
- Civil parishes in the West Midlands (county)
- Solihull
- Warwickshire geography stubs
- West Midlands (county) geography stubs