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Weddington Hunting Lodge

Has been described as a Questionable Palace (Royal)

There are no visible remains

Name	Weddington Hunting Lodge
Alternative Names	Watitune
Historic Country	Warwickshire
Modern Authority	Warwickshire
1974 Authority	Warwickshire
Civil Parish	Nuneaton

The site of a medieval deserted settlement. It is mentioned in Domesday Book as "Watitune". It may have been the site of a royal hunting lodge of circa 1210. This hamlet, now in Nuneaton, was destroyed when the Marquis of Dorset enclosed the whole manor, turning it to pasture in 1491. Ten houses are reported pulled down in the 1517 Inquiry and sixty persons expelled. One of the lessees from the Crown, a Mr. Trye, rebuilt the village and made habitations fit for husbandry. This must have been before 1561. The church, which dates to C13-C14 still stands, and contains a C12 font, which may indicate that there was an earlier church on the site. A modern housing estate has been built on the site of the deserted settlement. (PastScape)

Gatehouse Comments

Gatehouse can find no other reference to a royal hunting lodge here other than this in PastScape which, in turn, seems to come from http://www.weddingtoncastle.co.uk/ a site which references Cook, A.F., 1992, A revised geology, geography and history of Weddington, in the County of Warwick (Mr Cook is a geologist). Nothing like this in the VCH. The tenurial history is not consistent with a royal forest. The given map reference is for the parish church.

- Philip Davis

Not scheduled

Not Listed

Historic England (PastScape) Defra or Monument number(s)

336205

County Historic Environment Record

www.warwickshire.gov.uk/web/corporate/pages.nsf/(DisplayLinks)/3A41982A4C60D6E38025755A0058BA9C

OS Map Grid Reference	SP360934
Latitude	52.5387916564941
Longitude	-1.4713499546051
Eastings	436000
Northings	293400