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Water Orton is a village and civil parish in the North Warwickshire borough of Warwickshire in the West Midlands, England near the River Tame. It is located between Castle Bromwich and Coleshill, and borders the West Midlands metropolitan county boundary to the north, west and south.
- The Church
- The Coming of The Railways
- The Meat Industry
A Chapel of Ease was erected here in the 14th century to save the villagers trudging through the often flooded Tame Valley to the Parish Church at Aston. This was replaced by the present church and all that survives of the Chapel are the listed remains of a medieval cross and the graves in the churchyard. The present Parish Church of St Peter and S...
Until the 1840s Water Orton was mainly an agricultural village, but this changed with the coming of the railways. The first one was from Birmingham to Derby via Water Orton, Coleshill, Whitacre Heath and Tamworth. Later a junction was constructed and another line was built via Kingsbury to Tamworth. The lines pass through the centre of the village....
The railway also brought the meat industry here. There were large stock yards near the sidings and next to the Dog Inn in Marsh Lane. Cattle were offloaded from rail wagons into pens, then driven two miles down the road to butchers’ slaughter houses in Castle Bromwich, when meat was provided for nearby villages.
Oct 4, 2023 · Judith Cleaver moved to Water Orton for peace and quiet but said she felt the Warwickshire village was now encapsulated by work for HS2. The first phase of the line, from London to Birmingham,...
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Water Orton is a village and civil parish in the North Warwickshire borough of Warwickshire in the West Midlands, England near the River Tame. It is located between Castle Bromwich and Coleshill , and borders the West Midlands metropolitan county boundary to the north, west and south.
Water Orton is a village in Warwickshire, standing on the River Tame, from which it takes the “Water” name, and now squashed between the M6 and M6 Toll motorways and their associated feeder roads. Water Orton is found between Castle Bromwich and Coleshill. At the 2001 census, the population was 3,573. 1.
In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Water Orton like this: WATER-ORTON, a chapelry in Aston parish, Warwick; on the Birmingham and Derby railway, 2¼ miles NW of Coleshill. It has a post-office under Birmingham, and a r. station.
The oldest part of Water Orton is centred around Old Church Road. This is now a conservation area and contains buildings from the 14th and 17th centuries. This is the area that may account for the place name since it is on a high ridge of land overlooking the valley of the River Tame.
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