Horeston Grange
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Horeston Grange is a suburban area of Nuneaton, Warwickshire in England. CV11
Formerly a monastic farming estate belonging to Nuneaton Priory,[1] it is now a large housing estate, built mainly in the late 1980s and early 1990s (with an addition in the early 2000s). It is situated in eastern Nuneaton, approximately 1.5 miles from the town centre.
History
The monastic grange
The "Grange" of Horeston was so-called as being a managed monastic farming estate, which in medieval times (by 1291)[1] was one of the manorial possessions of the Priory of Benedictine nuns at Nuneaton.[2] In 1291 the Prioress of Eaton had, at the grange of Horeston in the Deanery of Arden, six carucates of land worth ten shillings a year, and had there profits of the store to the value of seven shillings a year.[3] Dr. Berenice Kerr shows that it was one of the five larger manors, together with Eaton, Hodnell, Ratby and Wibtoft, engaged in production of wheat and other arable crops supplied to Nuneaton Priory in the late 1340s, and was managed by lay brothers together with their estate at Burton.[4] That priory, one of the three English cells subordinate to the Abbey of Fontevrault in Anjou, France, was originally founded at Kintbury in Berkshire, by Robert de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Leicester and Gervase Paganell, c. 1153-55, but was removed to Nuneaton in c. 1155.[5]
Dissolution and manorial estate
The grange at Horeston was among its endowments in September 1539, when the priory was dissolved under King Henry VIII,[2] and formed part of the king's gift of the priory and its possessions to his servant Sir Marmaduke Constable in the spring of 1540.[5] Constable sold the grange to Jasper Fisher, who bequeathed it to his heirs Katherine Norwood and Anne Wolrich, his cousins.[6] However the lands called Horeston Fields and Horeston Wood remained in the hands of Robert Constable (heir of Sir Marmaduke), who in Queen Elizabeth's time sold them to Stephen Hales, Esq.[2][7]
The manorial estate which, as part of the Lordship of Nuneaton, succeeded the monastic grange, preserved the name of "Grange" in its title, and became the site of a manor house called Horeston Grange. In 1835 there were still some standing buildings surrounded by a moat containing water, with an entrance on the north side. The moat is likely to have been the enclosure for the medieval grange buildings, so the later manor house probably occupied the same site and may have contained medieval masonry.[8] In 1947 it was noted that the site was crossed by the railway line to Leicester, and that the only trace of the manor house was a dry moat.[6] Nearby Oaston Road is named after the same manor of Horeston/Oaston. Prior to the construction of the housing estate, the only features in the area were manorial earthworks.
The modern estate
Construction
The current housing estate dates, for the most part, from the late 1980s and early 1990s. It was constructed in two sections; there is no vehicular access between the two, although there are a number of connecting pathways for pedestrians.
The northern section (off Hinckley Road, based around Tiverton Drive and Tavistock Way) comprises 12 streets named after places in Devon. The southern section (off Eastboro Way, based around the horseshoe formed by Camborne Drive) comprises 24 streets named after places in Cornwall. Two of these streets (Portreath Drive and St Buryan Close) were built in the early 2000s as the "Peppermill Green" development.
Works began to extend the area again during the 2010s. The new estate is across Eastboro Way from Camborne Drive.
Schools
The area is served by one primary school, St Nicolas CE Academy, on Windermere Avenue in nearby St Nicolas Park, and one can go to Milby Primary on Milby Drive, also in St Nicolas Park.
At secondary level, Horeston Grange is near to Higham Lane School, a Business And Enterprise College, and is in the catchment area for nearby Etone College. Post-16 education is currently provided by King Edward VI College (in Nuneaton town centre) and North Warwickshire and Hinckley College (just north of Horeston Grange).
Community and leisure facilities
Horeston Grange has 2 new play areas. The largest of these lies between Wadebridge Drive and Tiverton Drive.
The area has one public house: The Acorn on Camborne Drive, home to the infamous Corn Club crew. Nearby, there are number of other pubs, such as The Harvester (on the corner of St Nicolas Park Drive and Hinckley Road) and The Longshoot Hotel (at the junction of Watling Street and The Long Shoot).
There is one place of worship in the area: the Horeston Grange Church Centre, home to Horeston Grange Ecumenical Church [1] on Camborne Drive.
Shopping facilities
Local shops can be found at Horeston Grange Shopping Centre at the northern junction of Camborne Drive and Eastboro Way. Additional shopping facilities can be found in nearby St Nicolas Park, as well as in Nuneaton town centre.
References
- ^ a b 'Site of Horeston Grange, Nuneaton', Historic site listing at Our Warwickshire website (ourwarwickshire.org.uk, retrieved 31 August 2022).
- ^ a b c "Horeston-Grange", in S. Whatley, England's Gazetteer, 3 vols (J. and P. Knapton, etc., London 1751), I, p. 315 (Google).
- ^ "Priorissa de Eton h'et... apud grangea' de Horeston in eodem dec' sex car' terre & val' car' p' annu' 0-10-00; et h'et ib'm de p'fic' stauri p' annu' 0-07-00", Taxatio ecclesiastica Angliae et Walliae auctoritate P. Nicholai IV. circa A. D. 1291 (Commissioners, 1802), p. 256 b (Münchener DigitalisierungsZentrum, Digitale Bibliothek/Bayerische StaatsBibliothek) (digitale-sammlungen.de).
- ^ B.M. Kerr, "Religious life for women from the twelfth century to the middle of the fourteenth century with special reference to the English foundations of the Order of Fontevraud" (Ph.D. Dissertation), St Anne's College, University of Oxford (Trinity 1995), p. 214 (pdf p. 233) (ora.ox.ac.uk).
- ^ a b 'Houses of Benedictine nuns: Priory of Nuneaton', in W. Page (ed.), A History of the County of Warwick, II (V.C.H., London 1908), pp. 66-70 (British History Online).
- ^ a b 'The Borough of Nuneaton: Horeston Grange', in L.F. Salzman (ed.), A History of the County of Warwick, IV: Hemlingford Hundred (V.C.H., London 1947), 165-73 (British History Online (accessed 31 August 2022).
- ^ W.J.J., 'Hales, Stephen (d.1574), of Gladbury, Worcs., Tottenham, Mdx., Coventry and Exhall, Warws.', in P.W. Hasler (ed.), The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1558-1603 (from Boydell and Brewer, 1981), History of Parliament Online, where they are called "Horeton Wood and fields".
- ^ "Horeston Grange Moat, Nuneaton", Warwick Museum Timetrail website, Record no. MWA 1691 (accessed 31 August 2022).