Visit Badby Places

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The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Badby

  

Badby Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Badby

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Badby history

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The land around Badby and Newnham changed hands frequently as the forces of Mercia and the invading Danes ebbed and flowed across middle England. The shared rector or vicar arrangement goes back 750 years.

Saxon

Charters record that the land was given by a Saxon sheriff (or shire reeve) Norman, Norman, to the Abbey of Croyland (or Crowland) around the year 726. To fund defence against the invading Danes around 871, Beorred seized it back and gave it to his army officers. After Edmund’s murder in 946, the estate was returned in 948 by his brother, King Edred (or Aedred, Ædred, Edric)

Norman

Evesham Abbey built a moated grange or farm headquarters 500 yards north-east of the church. The house was built by the notorious Abbot Roger Norreys in 1189. It continued in a variety of uses after the dissolution of the abbey during Protestant Reformation.

Ecclesiastical

Since its foundation in 709, Evesham Abbey had successfully developed an independent existence. It could not avoid being dissolved in November 1539, during the Protestant Reformation. In the 9th century, the parish was in the Diocese of Dorchester (Oxon), a safer location adopted by an earlier Bishop of Leicester to avoid the invading Danes.

Later times

King Henry VIII granted the manors of Badby and Newnham in 1542 to Sir Edmund Knightley and his wife Ursula. The dower house in Fawsley Park, last inhabited in 1704, is now in ruins. The manor lands and courts were dissolved in the early 20th century.

The Root(e) family

The Root(e) family is listed as one of the early settlers in ‘A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, before 1692’ We often receive enquiries, especially from America about the family. There are no monuments, gravestones nor descendants of the family that we can identify in Badby village today.

You can visit Badby places with Walkfo Badby to hear history at Badby’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Badby has 17 places to visit in our interactive Badby map, with amazing history, culture & travel facts you can explore the same way you would at a museum or art gallery with information audio headset. With Walkfo, you can travel by foot, bike or bus throughout Badby, being in the moment, without digital distraction or limits to a specific walking route. Our historic audio walks, National Trust interactive audio experiences, digital tour guides for English Heritage locations are available at Badby places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Badby & the surrounding areas.

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17 tourist, history, culture & geography spots

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Best Badby places to visit

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Badby has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Badby’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Badby’s information audio spots:

Staverton, Northamptonshire Staverton is 2.3 miles west of Daventry and 7.9 miles east of Southam. It straddles the A425 road from Daventry to Leamington Spa. The Jurassic Way long distance footpath between Banbury and Stamford passes through the village.

Church of St Mary the Virgin, Fawsley The Church of St Mary the Virgin is a Church of England parish church in Fawsley, Northamptonshire. It was built in the 13th century and is a Grade I listed building. It is under the jurisdiction of the Diocese of Peterborough.

Catesby Tunnel Catesby Tunnel is a disused railway tunnel on the former Great Central Main Line. It is 27 feet (8.2 m) wide, 25 feet 6 inches (7.8 m) high, and 2,997 yards (2.7 km) long. The tunnel was completed in 1897 and closed in 1966 when the line was made redundant by British Rail.

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