Street Ashton

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Street Ashton
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Street Ashton. Farm buildings at B4112 crossroads with road that runs from Monks Kirby to Stretton Under Fosse.
Civil parish
  • Monks Kirby
Metropolitan borough
  • Rugby
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townRugby
Postcode districtCV23
Dialling code01788
PoliceWarwickshire
FireWarwickshire
AmbulanceWest Midlands
UK Parliament
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Street Ashton is a hamlet in the Borough of Rugby, Warwickshire, England, part of the parish of Monks Kirby. It is located near the towns of Rugby and Lutterworth.

The hamlet is served by buses which connect it to Coventry, Hinckley, Rugby and Hillmorton. The nearest active railway station is Rugby.

History[]

The hamlet's name is Anglo-Saxon deriving from the personal name "Strudheard" or "Strodo" + "ton" (settlement). "Strudheard's ton" was later rephrased to Street Ashton, almost certainly because of the proximity of the Fosse Way and nearby Stretton-under-Fosse.[1]

The principal buildings in the Hamlet are Street Ashton Farm house, the farm was historically part of the estate of the Earls of Denbigh, and two large residences, Street Ashton House (see below) and Ashton Lodge, now a hotel.

Street Ashton House[]

Street Ashton House, an imposing, white house, sits on a hill above the hamlet and can be seen for several miles around. Formerly a dower house for the Earls of Denbigh, it was the residence (during the Edwardian era) of the celebrated First World War hero, Major Walter Basil Louis Bonn, DSO, MC, (dispatches) Welsh Guards (1885-1973); whose father lived at nearby Newbold Revel. In the 1950s and 60s Street Ashton House was owned by Spencer Wilks, Chairman of Rover. In 1947 Spencer Wilks, with his brother Maurice, conceived the idea of the Land Rover.[2] [3] In 2007, Street Ashton House was donated to the Mater Ecclesiae Convent which had been based in Monks Kirby (see Monks Kirby Roman Catholic Community). The convent closed in 2020 and in early 2021 the house was sold by the Roman Catholic Church. Remains of nuns buried in a grayeyard attached to the house were exhumed and re-interred in the Church of England churchyard in Little Walsingham, Norfolk. [4]

References[]

  1. ^ Gover; Mawer, Stenton (1970). The Place Names of Warwickshire.
  2. ^ "1959 Who's Who in the Motor Industry: Name W". Graces Guide to British Industrial History. 29 June 2021.
  3. ^ "Spencer Bernau Wilks". Graces Guide to British Industrial History. 29 June 2021.
  4. ^ "Mater Ecclesiae CIO Annual Report and Accounts to 31 March 2020". Charity Commission. 29 January 2021.


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