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BEAUDESERT - Extract from National Gazetteer, 1868

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The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868

"BEAUDESERT, a parish in the Henley division of the hundred of Barlichway, in the county of Warwick, contiguous to the town of Henley-in-Arden. Here is the site of a castle, founded in the reign of Henry II. by Thurstan de Montford, which was long the seat of the De Montford family, and was at length demolished during the wars of the Roses. There are now no remains of the building. A market was formerly held here, under a grant obtained from King Stephen. The living is a rectory* in the diocese of Worcester, of the value of £320, in the patronage of the lord chancellor.

The church, dedicated to St. Nicholas, is in the early English style, with a fine Norman arch at the entrance to the chancel, which is unfinished. This village was the birth-place (1715) of Richard Iago, a poet once of note, whose father held the rectory. The principal residence is Beaudesert House, a mansion occupying the site of the old castle. From Beaudesert Mount there is a fine prospect over a beautiful undulating country, extending 20 miles, from Edge Hills to Malvern."

"HENLEY, a division of the hundred of Barlichway, county Warwick, contains the town of Henley-in-Arden, and the parishes of Beaudesert, Claverdon, Preston Baggott, Rowington, and Wootton Wawen, comprising about 19,000 acres."

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]