Flecknoe

Flecknoe
Flecknoe
Flecknoe shown within Warwickshire
Population 212 (2001)
OS grid reference SP515635
Civil parish
District
Shire county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town RUGBY
Postcode district CV23
Dialling code 01788
Police Warwickshire
Fire Warwickshire
Ambulance West Midlands
EU Parliament West Midlands
UK Parliament
For the 17th-century poet and dramatist see Richard Flecknoe.

Flecknoe is a village in the Rugby district of Warwickshire, England, one mile west of the border with Northamptonshire. The village is within the parish of Wolfhampcote. The village was mentioned in the Domesday Book as Flachenho, probably meaning "Flecca's hill".[1] The village is shown as Fleckno on the Christopher Saxton map of 1637.

Flecknoe is quite an isolated village, it is located on a hill, one mile from the nearest main road (the A425 Southam - Daventry road) and is connected only by narrow lanes. Flecknoe has a small church, dedicated to St. Mark, which was built in 1891. An older chapel in the village dating from 1837 is now a private house. The village formerly had a school, which is now the village hall. On the outskirts of the village is a derelict brick building which is the remains of a Second World War camp.[1]

The Grand Union Canal runs in the plain to the north of the village,[1] which also contains the remain of the former Weedon to Leamington railway line. Flecknoe once had a railway station on this line. The station was over a mile north of the village and effectively in the middle of nowhere, consequently it was an early victim of British Railways' closure programme, the last passenger train running on 3 November 1952. However, the line survived carrying freight until 2 December 1963.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Geoff, Allen (2000). Warwickshire Towns & Villages. Sigma Press. p. 55. ISBN 1-85058-642-X.
  2. ↑ "Flecknoe Station". Warwickshire Railways. Retrieved 17 March 2018.
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