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Tardebigge was once a much greater [[Township (England)|township]], which included most of [[Redditch]], including the modern day town-centre. |
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Records of the [[parish]] begin in the late [[10th Century]]. Tardebigge was purchased by the [[Dean (religion)|Dean]] of [[Worcester]] for his Church from [[Ethelred the Unready|King Ethelred]], then seized by [[Sheriff]] of [[Staffordshire]] in a war between Ethelred's son [[Edmund II of England|Ironside]] and the [[Canute the Great|Cnut]] the [[Dane]]. |
Records of the [[parish]] begin in the late [[10th Century]]. Tardebigge was purchased by the [[Dean (religion)|Dean]] of [[Worcester]] for his Church from [[Ethelred the Unready|King Ethelred]], then seized by [[Sheriff]] of [[Staffordshire]] in a war between Ethelred's son [[Edmund II of England|Ironside]] and the [[Canute the Great|Cnut]] the [[Dane]]. |
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After the conflict subsided, the parish passed to [[Bordesley Abbey |
After the conflict subsided, the parish passed to [[Bordesley Abbey]]. The area remained in the Church's possession until the [[disestablishment]] of the [[Catholic Church]] in [[1538]]. |
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Under an arrangement with [[King Henry VIII]], the possesions of Bordesley Abbey passed to Andrew Lord Windsor, and thus to the stewardship of the [[Earl of Plymouth]] at adjacent [[Hewell Grange]]. |
Under an arrangement with [[King Henry VIII]], the possesions of Bordesley Abbey passed to Andrew Lord Windsor, and thus to the stewardship of the [[Earl of Plymouth]] at adjacent [[Hewell Grange]]. |
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Template:GBthumb Tardebigge is a village in Worcestershire, England.
It is most famously known for the Tardebigge locks, a flight of 30 canal locks that raise the Birmingham and Worcester Canal over 220 feet (67 metres). The flight runs from Lock 28 to Lock 58.
Origins
The oldest known spelling of its name is Anglo-Saxon Tærdebicga around the end of the first millennium, but that word has no known meaning in Anglo-Saxon or Celtic or Latin, so it may have come down from whatever non-Indo-European language was spoken in the area before the Celts arrived.
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Tardebigge was once a much greater township, which included most of Redditch, including the modern day town-centre.
Records of the parish begin in the late 10th Century. Tardebigge was purchased by the Dean of Worcester for his Church from King Ethelred, then seized by Sheriff of Staffordshire in a war between Ethelred's son Ironside and the Cnut the Dane.
After the conflict subsided, the parish passed to Bordesley Abbey. The area remained in the Church's possession until the disestablishment of the Catholic Church in 1538.
Under an arrangement with King Henry VIII, the possesions of Bordesley Abbey passed to Andrew Lord Windsor, and thus to the stewardship of the Earl of Plymouth at adjacent Hewell Grange.
It wasn't until the mid 19th Century that the parish of Tardebigge began to dissolve and the modern boundaries began to appear. In 1855, the St Stephen's parish was created for the growing industrial town of Redditch, alongside other Redditch parishes such as Headless Cross and Webheath.