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Bushwood is a hamlet in Warwickshire, located three miles north of Henley in Arden and a mile west of the M40 motorway. There is no village centre as such because all the buildings in the hamlet are spread out so widely. It was once part of the health board of Stratford-on-Avon.[1] The Stratford-on-Avon Canal runs along the eastern edge of the settlement.
Population details can be found under Rowington.
It is named after the wood, Bush Wood, that runs through the centre of the area. "Bushwood" is a corruption of byssopswode or Bishop's Wood, which refers to its former ownership by the bishops of Worcester, dating back to the 9th century.[2]
The wood itself is an ancient deer park, with an earthwork along its lower boundary.
The manor house, Bushwood Hall, is located at the northern end of the settlement. The current building is adjacent to the site of a previous medieval structure built in 1314, of which there remains no visible evidence above ground; however the moat remains intact and contains water all the way round.
References
[edit]- ^ Rammell, Thomas Webster (1852). Public Health Act, 11 & 12 Vict. cap. 63. Report ... on the boundary to be adopted for the sanitary improvement of Stratford-upon-Avon. Great Britain. General Board of Health. Retrieved 19 November 2025.
- ^ Duignan, William Henry (1912). Warwickshire Place Names. Oxford University Press. p. 38. Retrieved 18 November 2025.
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