Flecknoe

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For the 17th century poet and dramatist see Richard Flecknoe.

Flecknoe is a village in the Rugby district of Warwickshire, England. The village is within the parish of Wolfhampcote and has a population of around 200.

Flecknoe is quite an isolated village, being several miles from the nearest main road (the A425 Southam - Daventry road) and is connected only by narrow lanes. Flecknoe has a pub and a small church, dedicated to St. Mark, which was built with railway money in 1891 as compensation for disruption to the nearby ancient village of Wolfhampcote.

Although in Warwickshire, Flecknoe is close to the border with Northamptonshire and is closer to Daventry than to Rugby.

Its name came from Anglo-Saxon Fleccanhóh = "Flecca's hill-spur".

Flecknoe once had a railway station on the former Weedon to Leamington Spa branch line. The station was over a mile north of the village and effectively in the middle of nowhere, consequently it was an early victim of British Railways' closure programme, the last passenger train running on 3 November 1952. However, the line survived carrying freight until 2 December 1963.