Tardebigge is a village in Worcestershire, England. The British national grid reference system is a system of geographic grid references commonly used in Great Britain, different from using Latitude and Longitude A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet, but smaller than a Town or City. Worcestershire (ˈwʊstəʃə abbreviated Worcs) is a county located in the West Midlands region of central England. England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland
The village is most famous for the Tardebigge Locks, a flight of 30 canal locks that raise the Birmingham and Worcester Canal over 220 feet (67 metres) over the Lickey Ridge. Tardebigge Locks or the Tardebigge Flight is the longest flight of locks in the UK, comprising 30 narrow locks on a two mile stretch of the Worcester A lock is a device for raising and lowering boats between stretches of water of different levels on river and canal Waterways. The Worcester and Birmingham Canal is a Canal linking Birmingham and Worcester in England. Lickey Hills (known locally as simply The Lickeys) are a range of hills in Worcestershire, England, eleven miles to the south-west of the centre of It lies in the historic county of Worcestershire. The historic counties of England are ancient subdivisions of England. Worcestershire (ˈwʊstəʃə abbreviated Worcs) is a county located in the West Midlands region of central England.
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Development
Tardebigge was once a much greater township, which included much of Redditch, including the modern day town-centre. In England, township (latin - vill) usually means a village or hamlet Redditch is a Town and local government district in north-east Worcestershire, England.
Records of the parish, recorded twice in a will as Anglo-Saxon æt Tærdebicgan, begin in the late 10th century. A parish is a Local church; it is an administrative unit typically found in episcopal or presbyterian churches In Common law, a will or testament is a document by which a person (the Testator) regulates the rights of others over his or her Property Tardebigge was bought by the Dean of Worcester for his Church from King Ethelred the Unready. A dean, in a church context is a Cleric holding certain positions of authority within a religious hierarchy Worcester (ˈwʊstə is a city and County town of Worcestershire, in the West Midlands of England. Ethelred II ( c. 968 – 23 April 1016 also known as Æthelred II, Aethelred II, Ethelred the Unready, Æthelred the Unready In the later Dark Ages there were battles fought between Ethelred's son Ironside and the Cnut the Dane. This article is about the phrase "Dark Age(s" as a characterization of the Early Middle Ages in Western Europe Edmund Ironside or Eadmund (c 988/993 – 30 November 1016 surnamed " Ironside " for his efforts to fend off the Danish invasion } Canute the Great, also known as Cnut in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles, or Knut ( Old Norse: Knútr inn ríki, Norwegian
The name Tærdebicga (whose dative case is Tærdebicgan) does not appear to have any likely meaning in Anglo-Saxon or Celtic or any other likely known language, and may be a stray survival from whatever aboriginal (perhaps Pre-Indo-European) language was spoken in England before the Celts came. The dative case is a Grammatical case generally used to indicate the Noun to whom something is given Celts (ˈkɛlts or /ˈsɛlts/, see Names of the Celts England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland
In the 12th century, the parish was granted to Bordesley Abbey, a Roman Catholic monastery. Bordesley Abbey was an Abbey near the Town of Redditch, in Worcestershire, England. This article concerns the buildings occupied by monastics. For the life inside monasteries and its historical roots see Monasticism. For three hundred years the area remained in the Church's possession. In 1538 the Roman Catholic Church was disestablished by King Henry VIII, and the area became the possession of the Crown, until under an arrangement with Henry, the possessions of Bordesley Abbey passed to Andrew Lord Windsor, and therefore to the stewardship of the Earl of Plymouth at adjacent Hewell Grange. Disestablishmentarianism refers to the withdrawal of state support of an established church that was formerly part of the state establishment Henry VIII (28 June 1491 &ndash 28 January 1547 was King of England and Lord of Ireland, later King of Ireland and claimant to the Kingdom of Throughout the Commonwealth realms The Crown is an abstract metonymic concept which represents the legal authority for the existence of any government Earl of Plymouth is a title that has been created three times twice in the Peerage of England and once in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. Hewell Grange is a Country house in Tardebigge, Worcestershire, England. The land was gradually managed and sold off by the Earl; it was not until the mid 19th century that the parish of Tardebigge began to dissolve and the modern boundaries began to appear.
The area was well known for the manufacture of bricks during the 18th and 19th century. There is little industry in the village remaining, apart from minor canal narrow boat repairing works.
See also
The area become predominately a fruit growing area until the end of the 20th century with the famous Tardebigge orchards supplying produce to the Birmingham conurbation. Tardebigge Engine House ( is a former Canal -pumping Engine house at Tardebigge, Worcestershire, England. Most of these orchards were grubbed up in the 1970's and 1980's with the last orchard being removed in 2000, when cheaper imported fruit replaced the home grown produce. The only orchard planted recently is the small orchard of Tardebigge Cider.
References
External links
- Map sources for Tardebigge
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