Country: | England |
Coordinates: | 52.0952°N -1.5888°W |
Official Name: | Idlicote |
Static Image: | Church of St James the Great, Idlicote (geograph 2563878).jpg |
Shire District: | Stratford-on-Avon |
Shire County: | Warwickshire |
Region: | West Midlands |
Postcode District: | CV36 |
Postcode Area: | CV |
Dial Code: | 01608 |
Static Image Caption: | St James the Great parish church |
Idlicote is a small settlement and civil parish in the English county of Warwickshire, about 3miles north-east of Shipston-on-Stour and 8miles south-east of Stratford-upon-Avon. Population details can be found under Honington. The best known feature is Idlicote House, a grade II listed country house, on a site once owned by St Mary's Abbey. The most notable building is the parish church of Saint James the Great, which has surviving features from the 13th and 14th centuries and a 17th-century chapel added to house tombs of members of the Underhill family of Idlicote.[1]
Apart from these two, there are several other listed buildings, including Badger's Cottage and Badger's Farm, the Old Rectory, the Whitehouse and Nineveh farmhouses, and the dovecote at Idlicote House.[2] The parish is considered too small for a parish council and instead has a parish meeting. It also forms part of the Brailes ward of the Stratford-on-Avon District.[3] In 1868 The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland said of Idlicote: