Moreton Morrell is a village and civil parish in the county of Warwickshire, England. It is part of the historic hundred of Kington and is located about three and a half miles north west of the village of Kineton. The settlement was first mentioned in the Domesday Book as Moreton. From at least Norman times, it has consisted of the village of Moreton and the hamlet of Morrell. The parish of Moreton Morrell is bounded on the east and south east by the Fosse Way, and consists of Little Morrell in the north, the village of Moreton Morrell, and Moreton Paddox in the south.
Church of the Holy Cross, Moreton MorrellVillage
The population in 1801 was less than 200 and very similar to that cited in the Domesday Book in 1086. In the same year the advowson of the vill was divided between the lands of the Earl of Warwick and the Earl of Leicester to support their respective chapels, but by the 14th century the Hospital of St. John at Warwick received the revenues.[1] By 1961 the population had doubled and by 2001 it had doubled again to 800. The increase at the 2011 Census was to 850.[2]Moreton Hall is a Grade II listed building in the village built on land bought in 1903 by Charles Tuller Garland, son of a rich New York banker. Construction of the hall was completed in 1909. In 1948 it became the location of the Warwickshire Institute of Agriculture, and is now the location of one of the campuses and agricultural training centres of Warwickshire College. It also provides equine courses.[3] It was completely gutted by fire in 2008.[4]
^"Parishes: Moreton Morrell." A History of the County of Warwick: Volume 5, Kington Hundred. Ed. L. F. Salzman. London: Victoria County History, 1949. 118-122. British History Online website Retrieved 3 May 2020.
^"Civil Parish population 2011". Retrieved 30 December 2015.
^"Moreton Morell College (part of the Warwickshire College Group)". bhs.org.uk. Retrieved 3 September 2017.
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