Everything about Tardebigge totally explained
Tardebigge is a
village in
Worcestershire,
England.
The village is most famous for the
Tardebigge Locks, a flight of 30
canal locks that raise the
Birmingham and Worcester Canal over 220 feet (67 metres) over the
Lickey Ridge. It lies in the
historic county of
Worcestershire.
Development
Tardebigge was once a much greater
township, which included much of
Redditch, including the modern day town-centre.
Records of the
parish, recorded twice in a
will as
Anglo-Saxon æt Tærdebicgan, begin in the late 10th century. Tardebigge was bought by the
Dean of
Worcester for his Church from King
Ethelred the Unready. In the later
Dark Ages there were battles fought between Ethelred's son
Ironside and the
Cnut the
Dane.
The name
Tærdebicga (whose
dative case is
Tærdebicgan) doesn't appear to have any likely meaning in Anglo-Saxon or
Celtic or any other likely known language, and may be a stray survival from whatever aboriginal (perhaps
Pre-Indo-European) language was spoken in
England before the Celts came.
In the 12th century, the parish was granted to
Bordesley Abbey, a
Roman Catholic monastery. For three hundred years the area remained in the Church's possession. In 1538 the
Roman Catholic Church was
disestablished by
King Henry VIII, and the area became the possession of
the Crown, until under an arrangement with Henry, the possessions of Bordesley Abbey passed to Andrew Lord Windsor, and therefore to the stewardship of the
Earl of Plymouth at adjacent
Hewell Grange. The land was gradually managed and sold off by the Earl; it wasn't until the mid 19th century that the parish of Tardebigge began to dissolve and the modern boundaries began to appear.
The area was well known for the manufacture of bricks during the 18th and 19th century. There is little industry in the village remaining, apart from minor canal barge repairing works.
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