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Bushwood Hall
Bushwood
is a hamlet in
Warwickshire
, located three miles north of
Henley in Arden
and a mile west of the
M40 motorway
. There is no village centre as such because all the buildings in the hamlet are spread out so widely. It is named after the wood, Bush Wood, that runs through the centre of the area. The
Stratford-on-Avon Canal
runs along the eastern edge of the settlement. Population details can be found under
Rowington
.
"Bushwood" is a corruption of
byssopswode
or Bishop's Wood, which refers to its former ownership by the bishops of Worcester, dating back to the 9th century. The wood itself is an ancient deer park, with an earthwork along its lower boundary.
The manor house, Bushwood Hall, is located at the northern end of the settlement. The current building is adjacent to the site of a previous medieval structure built in 1314, of which there remains no visible evidence above ground; however the
moat
remains intact and contains water all the way round.
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