Whatcote

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86.131.2.234: /* Amenities */Added Michelin status

{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}}
{{Use British English|date=February 2025}}
{{Infobox UK place
|static_image_name=The Royal Oak, Whatcote - geograph.org.uk - 168482.jpg
|static_image_caption= The Royal Oak, Whatcote
|official_name= Whatcote
|coordinates = {{coord|52.098|-1.565|display=inline,title}}
|os_grid_reference= SP2944
|label_position= top
|population= 143
|population_ref= ([[United Kingdom Census 2011|2011 census]])<ref>{{cite web |url=http://neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/viewFullDataset.do?instanceSelection=03070&productId=779&$ph=60_61&datasetInstanceId=3070&startColumn=1&numberOfColumns=4&containerAreaId=790540 |title=Area selected: Stratford-on-Avon (Non-Metropolitan District)
|work=Neighbourhood Statistics: Full Dataset View |publisher=[[Office for National Statistics]] |access-date=12 January 2011}}</ref>
|civil_parish= Whatcote
|shire_district= [[Stratford-on-Avon (district)|Stratford-on-Avon]]
|shire_county= [[Warwickshire]]
|region= West Midlands
|country= England
|constituency_westminster= [[Stratford-on-Avon (UK Parliament constituency)|Stratford-on-Avon]]
|post_town= [[Shipston-on-Stour]]
|postcode_district= CV36
|postcode_area= CV
|dial_code= 01295
|website=
}}

'''Whatcote''' is a village and [[Civil parishes in England|civil parish]] in [[Warwickshire]], [[England]], about {{convert|4|mi|km}} northeast of [[Shipston on Stour]] in the [[Vale of the Red Horse]].<ref name=edwards>Edwards, 1950, p.51</ref> The population at the [[United Kingdom Census 2011|2011 census]] was 143.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11130513&c=whatcote&d=16&e=62&g=6472388&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1451736103531&enc=1|title=Civil Parish population 2011|access-date=2 January 2016}}</ref>

==Manor==
The [[Domesday Book]] records that in 1086 [[Hugh de Grandmesnil]], one of [[William I of England|William the Conqueror's]] military commanders, owned the [[Manorialism|manor]] of Whatcote.<ref name=Salzman>Salzman, 1949, pages 202-205</ref> In the latter half of the 14th century [[Baron Stafford#Barons Stafford, first creation (1299)|Thomas Stafford, 3rd Earl of Stafford]] acquired the manor.<ref name=Salzman/> It remained with the Stafford family until 1520 when [[Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham|Edward Stafford]] conveyed the manor to [[William Compton (courtier)|Sir William Compton]].<ref name=Salzman/> It remained with the Compton family, the [[Marquess of Northampton]] until early in the 19th century, but by 1826 it had been acquired by [[Sir Adolphus Dalrymple, 2nd Baronet|Sir Adolphus Dalrymple]].<ref name=Salzman/> By 1865 Sir Adolphus had sold it to the Peach family, who in turn sold it to [[Thomas Parker, 6th Earl of Macclesfield|Thomas Parker]].<ref name=Salzman/>

==Parish church==
The [[Church of England parish church]] of [[Peter (apostle)|St. Peter]] was built in the first half of the 12th century.<ref name=Salzman/> The [[nave]] survives from this period, with a [[Norman architecture|Norman]] doorway and two Norman windows in the north wall.<ref name=Pevsner470>Pevsner & Wedgwood, 1966, page 470</ref> The [[Bell tower|tower]] and several windows in the south wall were added late in the 13th century and the [[chancel]] was rebuilt in about 1300.<ref name=Pevsner470/> One of the windows in the south wall of the chancel is a 14th-century addition.<ref name=Salzman/> The south porch, and the [[parapet]] and two of the [[bell]]-chamber windows of the tower, are 15th century additions.<ref name=Salzman/> In the 16th or 17th century a [[buttress]] was added to shore up part of the north wall.<ref name=Salzman/> A German bomb badly damaged the nave and porch in 1941 and the building was restored in 1947.<ref name=Salzman/>

The church [[bell tower|tower]] has three [[bell]]s. The tenor had been cast in 1652<ref name=Warksbells>[http://www.warksbells.co.uk/whatcote.htm Church Bells of Warwickshire: Whatcote St Peter]</ref> but was recast by Henry Bond of [[Burford]],<ref name=DoveFounders>{{cite web |url=http://dove.cccbr.org.uk/founders.php |title=Bell Founders |work=Dove's Guide for Church Bell Ringers |access-date=12 January 2011}}</ref> [[Oxfordshire]] in 1897.<ref name=DoveDetails>{{cite web |url=http://dove.cccbr.org.uk/detail.php?searchString=Whatcote&DoveID=WHATCOTE |title=Whatcote S Peter |work=Dove's Guide for Church Bell Ringers |access-date=12 January 2011}}</ref> John Clark of [[Evesham]]<ref name=DoveFounders/> cast the second bell in 1711.<ref name=DoveDetails/> The treble bell was cast in 1766<ref name=Warksbells/> but was recast by William Blews & Sons of [[Birmingham]]<ref name=DoveFounders/> in 1878.<ref name=DoveDetails/> In the [[churchyard]] are the base and shaft of a [[medieval]] cross, from which the top has been lost and replaced with a 17th or early 18th century [[sundial]].<ref name=Pevsner470/> [[St. Peter]]'s is now part of a single [[Benefice#Church of England|benefice]] with the neighbouring parishes of [[Oxhill, Warwickshire|Oxhill]] and [[Tysoe]].<ref>[http://www.achurchnearyou.com/whatcote-st-peter/ A Church Near You: Whatcote - St. Peter, Whatcote]</ref>

==Amenities==
Whatcote has a [[public house]], the [[Royal Oak]], which has held a Michelin star since 2020.

==References==
{{reflist|2}}

==Sources==
{{refbegin}}
*{{cite book |last=Edwards |first=Tudor |title=Warwickshire
|publisher=P. Elek |date=1950
|location=London |page=50}}
*{{cite book |last1=Pevsner |first1=Nikolaus |author-link1=Nikolaus Pevsner |first2=Wedgwood |last2=Alexandra |series=[[The Buildings of England]] |title=Warwickshire |date=1966 |publisher=[[Penguin Books]] |location=Harmondsworth |page=470}}
*{{cite book |editor-last=Salzman |editor-first=Louis F. |editor-link=Louis Francis Salzman |series=[[Victoria County History]] |title=A History of the County of Warwick, Volume 5: Kington Hundred |year=1949 |pages=202–205}}
{{refend}}

==External links==
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[[Category:Villages in Warwickshire]]
[[Category:Civil parishes in Warwickshire]]

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