Lea Marston

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Lea Marston is a village in the North Warwickshire district of the county of Warwickshire, England.

Lea Marston can be traced back to the Saxon period. In the Domesday book separately owned manors were recorded. During the 17th Century and 18th Century Lea Marston belonged to the Adderley family. They acquired it through marriage when Charles Adderley married Anne Arden of Park Hall in Castle Bromwich. The Adderley Manor House was restyled in the traditional 18th Century style and was called Hams Hall. The building was dismantled in the 1920's when the City of Birmingham bought the land and built a Electricity Generating Station. Two more stations were later built and all three themselves dismantled in the 1990's when an industrial park was built. One part of Hams Hall was exported to the USA. The other was reassembled as Bledisloe Lodge, a Hall of Residence for students at the Royal College of Agriculture, at Coates near Cirencester in Gloucestershire. Descendants of the Adderley's now live in Fillongley.

The Parish Church of St John the Baptist was established about 1300AD. Only the south wall of the nave and the north wall survive from this era. It was lengthened in the 15th Century and the chancel was rebuilt in 1876-7. There is 14th Century work elsewhere. The church contains monuments to members of the Adderley family.

When the Central Electricity Generating Board was later responsible for Hams Hall it founded an Environmental Studies Centre. To preserve it, Lea Ford Cottage (a local medieval timber framed building) was re-erected there.

Lea Marston is now a residential village.