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Tardebigge (/ˈtɑːrdibɪɡ/) is a village in Worcestershire, England.
The village is most famous for the Tardebigge Locks, a flight of 30 canal locks that raise the Worcester and Birmingham Canal over 220 feet (67 metres) over the Lickey Ridge. It lies in the county of Worcestershire, although it was also historically an exclave of Staffordshire or Warwickshire at different times in its history.
Tyrde Bicgan is Old English for "big tower" or "tower on a hill," reflecting the position of the church. It was called Terdeberie in the Domesday Book and subsequently spelt Tardebigg, Tardebig, and Tarbick.
Eilert Ekwall, however, writes that the name Tærdebicga has no likely meaning in Old English or Celtic and calls it "unexplained".
Tardebigge was once a much greater township, which included much of Redditch, including the modern day town-centre. Its name was recorded twice in a will as Anglo-Saxon æt Tærdebicgan.
Records of the parish begin in the late 10th century. Tardebigge was bought by the Dean of Worcester for his Church from King Ethelred the Unready. In the later Dark Ages there were battles fought between Ethelred's son Edmund Ironside and Cnut the Dane.
In the 12th century, the parish was granted to Bordesley Abbey. For three hundred years the area remained in the Church's possession. In 1538 the Roman Catholic Church was disestablished by King Henry VIII, and the area became the possession of The Crown, until under an arrangement with Henry, the possessions of Bordesley Abbey passed to Andrew Lord Windsor, and therefore to the stewardship of the Earl of Plymouth at adjacent Hewell Grange. The land was gradually managed and sold off by the Earl; it was not until the mid 19th century that the parish of Tardebigge began to dissolve and the modern boundaries began to appear.
The local parish church of St Bartholomew by Francis Hiorne of 1777 contains an impressive monument to Sir Thomas Cookes, 2nd Baronet, the benefactor of Worcester College, Oxford, as well as several monuments to the Earls of Plymouth who lived at adjacent Hewell Grange. Several members of the earls' families are buried in the cemetery of St Bartholomew's, including Robert Windsor-Clive, 1st Earl of Plymouth, GBE, CB, PC (1857–1923), and his parents-in-law, Sir Augustus Berkeley Paget, GCB (1823–1896), and Walburga, Lady Paget (1839–1929), the diarist, writer and friend of Queen Victoria.
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Tardebigge
Tardebigge (/ˈtɑːrdibɪɡ/) is a village in Worcestershire, England.
The village is most famous for the Tardebigge Locks, a flight of 30 canal locks that raise the Worcester and Birmingham Canal over 220 feet (67 metres) over the Lickey Ridge. It lies in the county of Worcestershire, although it was also historically an exclave of Staffordshire or Warwickshire at different times in its history.
Tyrde Bicgan is Old English for "big tower" or "tower on a hill," reflecting the position of the church. It was called Terdeberie in the Domesday Book and subsequently spelt Tardebigg, Tardebig, and Tarbick.
Eilert Ekwall, however, writes that the name Tærdebicga has no likely meaning in Old English or Celtic and calls it "unexplained".
Tardebigge was once a much greater township, which included much of Redditch, including the modern day town-centre. Its name was recorded twice in a will as Anglo-Saxon æt Tærdebicgan.
Records of the parish begin in the late 10th century. Tardebigge was bought by the Dean of Worcester for his Church from King Ethelred the Unready. In the later Dark Ages there were battles fought between Ethelred's son Edmund Ironside and Cnut the Dane.
In the 12th century, the parish was granted to Bordesley Abbey. For three hundred years the area remained in the Church's possession. In 1538 the Roman Catholic Church was disestablished by King Henry VIII, and the area became the possession of The Crown, until under an arrangement with Henry, the possessions of Bordesley Abbey passed to Andrew Lord Windsor, and therefore to the stewardship of the Earl of Plymouth at adjacent Hewell Grange. The land was gradually managed and sold off by the Earl; it was not until the mid 19th century that the parish of Tardebigge began to dissolve and the modern boundaries began to appear.
The local parish church of St Bartholomew by Francis Hiorne of 1777 contains an impressive monument to Sir Thomas Cookes, 2nd Baronet, the benefactor of Worcester College, Oxford, as well as several monuments to the Earls of Plymouth who lived at adjacent Hewell Grange. Several members of the earls' families are buried in the cemetery of St Bartholomew's, including Robert Windsor-Clive, 1st Earl of Plymouth, GBE, CB, PC (1857–1923), and his parents-in-law, Sir Augustus Berkeley Paget, GCB (1823–1896), and Walburga, Lady Paget (1839–1929), the diarist, writer and friend of Queen Victoria.
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