Compton Verney

A distant view of Compton Verney House.

Compton Verney is a manor and parish in the county of Warwickshire, England.[1] The population taken at the 2011 census was 119.[2]

The first record of a settlement at Compton Verney was the late Saxon village of Compton. It had good communications, being served by the Fosse Way, which ran north–south half a mile from the site and led from the Roman settlements of Cirencester to Leicester. By the time of the Domesday Book in 1086 (a survey carried out for the Norman king, William the Conqueror, to record land ownership and values), the village was divided into two manors. The largest manor was held by the Count of Meulan, and this was inherited by the Earls of Warwick, who held it in the king’s name.

Some time before 1150, the manor was granted to Robert Murdac and the village became known as Compton Murdak, passing by inheritance to the heirs of the Murdak family. In 1370, after two hundred years of Murdak ownership, Sir Thomas Murdak surrendered the estate to Edward III’s mistress, Alice Perrers.

In 1435, it was acquired by Richard Verney (1435–1490) with the assistance of his younger brother John Verney, Dean of Lichfield, and the Richard Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick. The Verney family had begun acquiring lands in the area of Compton Murdak and the surrounding villages in the 1430s before purchasing the estate.

Around 1500, it was so closely associated with the Verney family that it began to be known as Compton Verney.

According to William Dugdale in his Antiquities of Warwickshire (1656)[3] a manor house was built there in about 1442. In 1656, William Dugdale wrote:

Richard Verney Esquire (afterward Knight)… built a great part of the House, as it now standeth, wherein, besides his own Armes with matches, he then set up…towards the upper end of the Hall, the Armes of King Henry the Sixth.[3]

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References

  1. ↑ "Parishes: Compton Verney". A History of the County of Warwick. 5: Kington hundred. 1949. pp. 58–60. Retrieved 31 December 2007.
  2. ↑ "Civil Parish population 2011". Retrieved 27 December 2015.
  3. 1 2 "Antiquities of Warwickshire". Archive.org. 1656.

Coordinates: 52°10′25″N 1°32′43″W / 52.17348°N 1.54519°W / 52.17348; -1.54519

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