OS Grid Reference: 52°36'N 1°36'W
Name Origin: Old English grennedone green hill.
LAND OF HENRY OF FERRERS
In COLESHILL Hundred
Henry of Ferrers holds 5½ hides in GRENDONE and Thurstan from him. Land for 16 ploughs. 24 villagers and 16 smallholders with 8 ploughs. A mill at 5s; meadow, 36 acres; woodland 1½ leagues long and 1 league wide. The value was and is 40s.
Siward Bairn held it. [Siward joined Hereward, Edwin and Morcar in the Ely rebellion of 1971. "Bairn" probably had the same meaning as Old English cilt, "childe", born to an inheritance, "well born".]
A Topographical Dictionary of England, Samuel Lewis, 1831:
GRENDON, a parish in the Tamworth division of the hundred of HEMLINGFORD, county of WARWICK, 3¼ miles (N.W.) from Atherstone, containing, with the hamlet of Whittington, 554 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Coventry, and diocese of Lichfield and Coventry, rated in the kings's books at £20. 3. 4., and in the patronage of Sir G. Chetwynd, Bart. The church is dedicated to All Saints. The Coventry canal passes through the parish, and coal mines are wrought in the neighbourhood.
The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, ed J.H.F.Brabner, 1895:
Grendon, a parish in Warwickshire, on the river Anker and the Coventry Canal, contiguous to Leicestershire, 2½ miles NW by N of Atherstone. It includes Whittington hamlet, and its post town is Atherstone. Acreage, 2415; population, 681. Grendon Hall, a fine large edifice mainly rebuilt in 1825, has been for centuries the seat of the Chetwynd family. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Worcester; gross value, £450 with residence. The church consists of nave, chancel, aisles, and transept, with a south porch and embattled tower. There is a Free Methodist chapel.
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