Fenny Compton
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Fenny Compton is a village in Warwickshire, England, about eight miles north of Banbury. Its church of St. Peter and St. Clare was built in the 14th century. Fenny Compton is small but had two stations, one on the Great Western Railway route from Oxford to Birmingham, the other being on the Stratford Midland Junction route from Bicester to Broom. The GWR station and SMJ station were built alongside each other controlled by a joint signal box. The village has a doctor's consulting-room, a small general store, and two pubs. The old part of the village has many notible buildings including Knotts cottage
Its name came from the Anglo-Saxon Fennig Cumbtūn = "marshy farmstead in a valley".
[edit] External links
- http://www.bmsgh.org/parish/warw/tyaiw/fennycompton.html
- http://www.warwickshirerailways.com/index.htm
