Talk:Wilnecote
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[edit]Would anyone who doesn't live in "wincut" describe the place as highly sought-after . I've moved house a few times in Tamworth and never has wincut been a serious consideration. Despite the new housing estate (underneath huge pylons) near the M42 (next to a busy road is a good thing now) the local amenities are not the highest on the list for the region.
To call it highly sought-after in this article is definately subjective and quite frankly overstating the place, again subjective.
What is Plimmer theory can anyone point to a refernce on this, to backup the famous people claim. If Google doesn't find it I'm dubious, possibly wrong, but still dubious.
Has Wilnecote been in Warwickshire?
[edit]Charles Bulmer Maude was Perpetual Curate or incumbent of Wilnecote. Reference books in Maude's lifetime (he died in 1927) refer to Wilnecote as being in Warwickshire although he was at same time Rural Dean of Tamworth. (It is not unknown for rural deaneries, groups of parishes of the Church of England to sometimes cross county boundaries.) I wonder when the county boundary changed?Cloptonson (talk) 21:30, 1 December 2018 (UTC)
- Just over half of what is now considered Tamworth is historically in Warwickshire (with the county boundary running along the Tame, through the town centre, and up the Ashby Road; places like Glascote, Bolehall, Kettlebrook, Amington, Stonydelph, Wilnecote, Belgrave, Two Gates, Dosthill, and Hockley are all on the Warwickshire side). However, when the first county councils were created in England and Wales (by the Local Government Act 1888, which came into effect in the spring of 1889), a number of urban sanitary districts that straddled county boundaries were put entirely in one county for administrative purposes. This was the case for Tamworth (which was placed entirely in Staffordshire by the LGA 1888), as well as for Burton upon Trent (split between Staffordshire and Derbyshire, and placed entirely in Staffordshire) and 30 or so other places in England and Wales (see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_Government_Act_1888#Towns_on_county_boundaries). Wilnecote was in the parish of Tamworth (and also the urban sanitary district of Tamworth), and so became administratively part of Staffordshire from 1 April 1889.Herbaltablet (talk) 13:55, 17 December 2020 (UTC)