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Measham history
Early history
The village name Meas-Ham suggests it was founded in the Saxon period between AD 350 and 1000. Just before the Norman Conquest of 1066, the village belonged to Earl Algar. The Domesday Book of 1086 has it as belonging directly to the King, as part of a royal estate centred at Repton.
Middle Ages
Measham is thought to have been mainly agricultural, but coalmining is known to have taken place as early as the 13th century. The original chapel of ease dated from 1172, but the present St Laurence’s Church was built in 1340, under the auspices of Repton Priory. The manor passed from the crown to the Earls of Chester in 1235.
16th–17th centuries
In 1596 Measham was dismissed by William Wyrley as “a village belonging to Lord Shefield” The village was omitted altogether from Richard Blome’s gazetteer of market towns in 1673. In 1563 the manor belonged to Walter Blount, 1st Baron Mountjoy.
18th–19th centuries
Measham went through a prosperous period associated with the Industrial Revolution. The village industry included banking, breweries, coal mines and brick-making. A market hall was said to have been built by Joseph Wilkes about the turn of the 19th century.
20th–21st centuries
Passenger services on the Ashby and Nuneaton Joint Railway ceased in 1931. The traditional industries began to die, with the boot and shoe factory closing in the 1960s. The 1960s saw many of the village’s fine buildings demolished, including the Manor House, Measham Hall and Vicarage.
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