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Back by popular demand, another hike in North Warwickshire.
I had already decided to go to Packwood but after reading Stomper's thread I & M Canal Path Hike, I included the canals in the Lapworth area.
Packwood Hall is a medieval moated manor house, privately owned and lived in. It is not open to the public. You can't see the water of the moat in this pic but it is between the camera(phone) and the hedge.
St Giles Church, Packwood. The church is mostly 13th century but the tower is 15th century and is known as the tower of atonement. A reference to the 15 century Lord of the Manor Nicholas Brome who returned home unexpectedly to find the parish priest "chockinge his wife under ye chinne," and slew him on the spot. As penance, after pardons from Pope and King, he built towers to the churches of Packwood and Baddesley Clinton.
The parents of Dr Johnson, of dictionary fame, were married here in 1706.
Inside the church is this Parish chest. It is cut from a solid piece of oak tree trunk after the fashion of a dugout canoe. It is certainly much older than the church itself and probably over a thousand years old.
There are fragments of medieval stained glass in a couple of the windows.
An old farm at the side of the churchyard.
We leave the churchyard through this kissing gate.
After a short distance we come to a couple of small footbridges.
Looking back towards Packwood church and hall.
Bluebells under the hedge.
The path takes us past Chessets Wood farm and out onto a lane here.
I had already decided to go to Packwood but after reading Stomper's thread I & M Canal Path Hike, I included the canals in the Lapworth area.
Packwood Hall is a medieval moated manor house, privately owned and lived in. It is not open to the public. You can't see the water of the moat in this pic but it is between the camera(phone) and the hedge.
St Giles Church, Packwood. The church is mostly 13th century but the tower is 15th century and is known as the tower of atonement. A reference to the 15 century Lord of the Manor Nicholas Brome who returned home unexpectedly to find the parish priest "chockinge his wife under ye chinne," and slew him on the spot. As penance, after pardons from Pope and King, he built towers to the churches of Packwood and Baddesley Clinton.
The parents of Dr Johnson, of dictionary fame, were married here in 1706.
Inside the church is this Parish chest. It is cut from a solid piece of oak tree trunk after the fashion of a dugout canoe. It is certainly much older than the church itself and probably over a thousand years old.
There are fragments of medieval stained glass in a couple of the windows.
An old farm at the side of the churchyard.
We leave the churchyard through this kissing gate.
After a short distance we come to a couple of small footbridges.
Looking back towards Packwood church and hall.
Bluebells under the hedge.
The path takes us past Chessets Wood farm and out onto a lane here.
