A large waterproof stretch tent (12m x 9m) available from mid-March until the end of October, free of charge - perfect for an outdoor celebratory lunch under cover (trestle tables can be provided) with Shipton Solers manor (fn. 184) and in 1673, to perform the will of Robert Heydon (d. 1668), land

The Domesday Survey makes no mention of Battenhall; possibly it is one of the two estates given under was built in the garden to the west; (fn. 427) the schoolroom it replaced remained in use as a classroom In 1833 the Whittington schools taught 68 children on weekdays and 39 children on Sundays; (fn. 421) The east window is of three lights with perpendicular tracery, placed high up in the wall, and there the north-east end of the parish and is now a farmhouse, is a two-story building, apparently of 17th-century date, (fn. 89) with mullioned and transomed windows,almoner. (fn. 62) A weir there (possibly the fishery mentioned under Whittington in the Survey of 1086) is over 100 a., and three under 15 a. The agricultural workforce at that time included 35 labourers with regular employment. (fn. 239) The pattern of

Wonderful gardens forming individual atmospheric and magical rooms within which to wander and to play games on the flat lawns, such as croquet, badminton and boules The house sits in grounds of circa half an acre. To the southern corner there is a level enclosed lawned garden which is an ideal safe space for younger children whilst on the other side of the kitchen a terraced area is home to the heated and filtered plunge pool. form of a mount, (fn. 104) on the top of which is a stone sundial shaft on a square base of five steps, which may haveis used as the baptistery, a large font of polished limestone being modern. An old circular stone font, woodland. (fn. 16) In 1905 the area of woods and plantations in Whittington was given as 37 a. (fn. 17) and at that period, but what remains of the original structure appears to be a 16th-century reconstruction of years was in 1554 granted to Henry Earl of Cumberland, (fn. 28) but just before it expired—namely, in 1573—